Broadcast Automation Engineer

Job Title: Broadcast Automation Engineer
Location: West London, UK
Job Type: Full-time contract, 6 months
Work Model: Hybrid

Summary:
This role focuses on automating gallery workflows for live broadcast environments, ensuring seamless support for live and near-live productions.

Responsibilities:
Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot automated rundown-driven workflows, including:
o Vision mixer control
o Graphics triggering
o Clip and source recall
Support live and near-live productions, ensuring automation behaves predictably during editorial and time-critical changes.
Participate in testing, validation, and operational readiness for automation updates, templates, and gallery changes.

Essential:
Strong hands-on experience with Ross OverDrive and Caprica in live broadcast environments
Proven understanding of newsroom-to-gallery workflows using OpenMedia, Ross Inception, and iNews
Deep understanding of MOS workflows and editorial metadata flow
Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across editorial, automation, and gallery layers during live output

Desirable:
Experience in news production environments
Understanding of how graphics systems (VizRT, Chyron, Unity) integrate with studio automation
Familiarity with template-based automation design and gallery standardisation
Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS) and modern operational practices