Broadcast Engineer, Live Sports Production, Prime Video Live Sports

Job description

Application deadline

Oct 20, 2026

Prime Video Live Sports delivers live events to tens of millions of customers worldwide -- NFL Thursday Night Football, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLB, UEFA Champions League, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and more. The Technical Operations team is the engineering backbone of every broadcast: responsible for the planning, signal integrity, and on-the-ground execution of the infrastructure that makes each live event possible.

We are looking for a Broadcast Engineer who brings deep technical expertise and a willingness to do whatever the production requires -- from architecting signal flows and managing vendor deployments to pulling cable on a truck an hour before airtime. If you thrive in the controlled chaos of live sports production and take personal ownership of every broadcast you touch, we want to hear from you.

This is a remote-based role with regular travel to live events, on-location productions, and our Culver City, CA headquarters -- the home base for Prime Video Live Sports.

Key job responsibilities

Project Management & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Manage technical project lifecycles from pre-production through post-event wrap: timelines, task assignment, milestone tracking, and on-time delivery.
• Coordinate across production operations, graphics, audio, comms, cloud engineering, and

Technical Integration Management

• Maintain project documentation and status reporting; drive process improvements and scalable solutions across productions.

Infrastructure & Documentation

• Maintain and upgrade Prime Video broadcast infrastructure, field equipment, inventory records, and procurement tracking.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, cable maps, signal flow diagrams, and system configuration documentation.
• File post-event technical reports, track recurring issues, and evaluate emerging broadcast technologies for workflow improvements.

Remote Deployment & Vendor Oversight

Plan and execute remote deployments end-to-end

• scope, technical solutions, logistics, and readiness confirmation.
• Oversee vendor and contractor performance against SLAs; liaise with third-party operators, host broadcasters, and equipment vendors on signal flow and handoff procedures.
• Track risks across concurrent deployments; manage vendor relationships, performance evaluations, and procurement decisions.

Event Readiness and Technical Execution

• Set up, operate, and troubleshoot live broadcast systems: video/audio routing, cameras, encoding, replay, intercom, IP transport, and transmission.
• Coordinate signal flows, conduct pre-show validations, and deploy contribution circuits (fiber, satellite, IP) with carriers and partners.
• Serve as on-site technical contact; monitor signal quality in real time, troubleshoot failures, and ensure compliance with broadcast standards.

A day in the life

Every broadcast begins long before the red light. You arrive at the venue to confirm vendor gear integrates to plan, Prime Video systems are healthy, and contribution circuits are live.

Once rolling, you support the full signal chain, monitoring paths, checking in with truck technicians, logging drift and driving it to resolution before it becomes a problem. On-site tests for new initiatives run alongside live production, so you coordinate those while providing engineering support from power to specialty cameras, graphics, and comms.

Between events, you partner with technical operations, production, and vendor teams to move initiatives to their next milestones, flagging risks early and keeping standards high.

About the team

The Prime Video Live Sports Technical Operations team supports live sports properties in the US and internationally. The team works closely with production operations, audio, comms, graphics, cloud engineering, and Technical Integration Management to raise the technical bar on our broadcasts and evolve our production model.

We oversee vendor supplying various mobile production facilities, manage Prime Video-owned broadcast equipment across remote integrations, and coordinate with centralized production facilities and a Broadcast Operations Center to deliver events at scale.

We are engineers who take pride in doing the work, not just overseeing it.