Production Design Engineer

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Design Engineer based in New York who brings deep technical expertise and strong cross-team leadership. This role is responsible for conceiving, designing, and delivering scalable broadcast systems from the ground up, while also supporting reliability and operations as needed to ensure long-term system performance.

You will lead conceptual system design efforts, translating operational requirements into robust SMPTE 2110 architectures, and collaborate closely with CAD engineers, vendors, clients, and internal stakeholders to move systems from idea to execution. While design leadership is the primary focus, hands-on involvement in configuration, validation, and operational support is expected to ensure systems perform exactly as designed.

In addition, this role will serve as a technical leader and mentor, guiding engineers through design decisions, project scope, and technical reasoning to create clarity and alignment across teams. The ideal candidate thrives in complex, hybrid broadcast environments and naturally bridges design, implementation, and operations. Strong communication, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to translate high-level concepts into executable plans are essential.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as the technical design lead for broadcast and live production systems, with a primary focus on SMPTE 2110 IP-based architectures.

• Own system-level design thinking, including conceptual architecture, signal flow, bandwidth modeling, redundancy strategies, and future expansion planning.

• Translate high-level design concepts into clear and actionable direction for CAD engineers, covering connectivity, cabling standards, signal formats, control paths, and network topology.

• Design and support SMPTE 2110 environments, including routing, PTP timing, multicast architecture, and resiliency models, with hands-on experience in platforms such as Evertz EXE and Magnum.

• Maintain and integrate hybrid infrastructures, balancing modern IP systems with baseband and legacy routing environments.

• Partner with production, operations, and engineering leadership to plan system upgrades, expansions, and long-term technical roadmaps.

• Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies and products, working directly with vendors to validate performance, interoperability, and design fit.

• Provide reliability-focused engineering support through system configuration, troubleshooting, and escalation of complex issues impacting live production.

• Help define best practices for system documentation, monitoring, redundancy design, and long-term sustainability.

• Serve as a technical authority and point of contact for clients, internal teams, and leadership, communicating clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and supporting production facility broadcast systems in professional television environments.

• 7+ years of experience in television broadcast or live production environments, with demonstrated growth in technical scope and responsibility.
• Advanced hands-on experience with SMPTE 2110 IP-based production environments, including routing, multicast architecture, PTP timing, and system design tradeoffs.
• Experience with leading broadcast platforms and ecosystems such as Sony, Evertz, Calrec, Ross