Systems Engineer - One Media at Sinclair Broadcast Group

To support our growing team, we are looking for a Systems Engineer to join the ONE Media Lab team. As a Systems Engineer, you will help innovate, build, and support our rapidly expanding next generation IP broadcast platform. This is a full time in office position located in Hunt Valley, MD

Responsibilities:

• Support Sinclair’s ATSC 3 and mobile initiatives in the US and abroad.
• Support verification, validation and conformance testing for ATSC 3 specifications and receivers.
• Participate and contribute to the ONE Media Lab innovation and ideation process.
• Develop requirements and acceptance plans for qualifying software and station equipment.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software, virtual machines, and management tools to keep lab servers/ broadcast air chains up to date.
• Develop, maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies for the Lab.
• Support plug-fests, interop events and integration in the lab
• Participate and support technology demonstrations at key events (NAB, CES, etc.)
• Participate in standards and other industry alignment activities at A3SA, ATSC, IETF, W3C and 3GPP.
• Support other ONE Media initiatives.

Required Skills

• BS degree or equivalent experience
• Familiar with broadcast TV systems
• Understand concepts with test strategy and test plan development
• Familiar with the ATSC 3 and 3GPP standards.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Familiar with Linux/Unix and Android environments.
• Familiar with video streaming technologies
• Must have good communication skills and be a team player

Who is ONE Media Technologies? We are at the forefront of creating and deploying a remarkable new “Next Generation” platform for the broadcast television ecosystem.

This wireless, “All-IP” (Internet Protocol)-based platform is designed to enhance over-the-air broadcasting dramatically, with a vast new set of ‘tools’ to provide multiple data services. The “NextGen” standard starts by delivering traditional, linear television programming with exceptional robustness. With SFNs (Single Frequency Networks), ‘gap fillers’ and related technologies, “NextGen” broadcast signals will provide better indoor reception. And for the first time, broadcast TV will be receivable by portable and mobile devices.

Simultaneously, the “NextGen” platform opens vast new opportunities to broadcasters by enabling non-television data distribution that leverages broadcasting’s enormously efficient one-to-many architecture, an architecture designed to be compatible and aligned with 5G technologies of the future.

Addressable features of the platform permit unique geographical “zoning” of programming, targeted advertising, and data services, supporting expansion of entirely new services that broadcasters can offer including automotive services, Internet of Things (IoT) and vastly enhanced emergency information notifications.

ONE Media is working with international partners to create the first truly ‘global market’ for broadcasting. This is broadcasting as never before imagined.

Sinclair is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Us

Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. The Company owns, operates and/or provides services to 185 television stations in 86 markets affiliated with all the major broadcast networks; and owns Tennis Channel and multicast networks Comet, CHARGE!, TBD., and The Nest. Sinclair's content is delivered via multiple platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and the nation's largest streaming aggregator of local news content, NewsON. The Company regularly uses its website as a key source of Company information which can be accessed at www.sbgi.net.

About the Team

The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let’s talk.

The base salary compensation range for this role is $85,000 to $100,000. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, 15 paid vacation days, 2 paid personal days, 9 paid holidays, 40 hours of paid sick leave, parental leave, and employee stock purchase plan.