Audio Broadcast Engineer

Location: The Lantern, London (Euston), United Kingdom; hybrid working with regular on-site presence and early/late shifts

Company

hirify.global is a large European media business operating publishing, radio, podcast, and entertainment brands across multiple countries.

What you will do

• Diagnose and resolve studio and broadcast faults to minimise disruption to live services.
• Support studio audio systems, including microphones, mixing consoles, routing, monitoring, processing, and talkback.
• Maintain digital playout, automation, scheduling, logging, and Audio-over-IP platforms.
• Support studio video systems, video-over-IP, streaming, content capture, outside broadcasts, festivals, and live events.
• Provide responsive technical support to presenters, producers, journalists, and content teams.
• Perform preventative maintenance, system health checks, documentation, resilience, continuity, and disaster recovery work.

Requirements

• Experience in broadcast engineering, media technology, audio engineering, or a similar technical environment.
• Strong understanding of audio signal flow, broadcast workflows, and radio playout or automation systems.
• Experience with Audio-over-IP technologies such as Livewire, Dante, AES67, or Axia.
• Basic TCP/IP networking knowledge and experience supporting software and hardware environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, fault-finding, communication, and stakeholder-support skills.
• Ability to work regular on-site shifts in London and participate in an on-call rota approximately one week every four to five weeks.

Nice to have

• Experience with RCS Zetta or similar playout platforms.
• Experience with live radio, video production, video-over-IP, streaming, or outside broadcasts.
• Knowledge of FM, DAB, or IP distribution systems.
• Broadcast systems integration experience or experience in large-scale media organisations.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across 17 radio studios, live production facilities, and video operations.
• Collaborate with content, production, infrastructure, broadcast, and technology teams across the UK and Ireland.
• Flexible working arrangement combining office and remote work.
• 28 days of holiday, bank holidays, and two volunteer days.
• Access to Bauer Academy training and enhanced parental leave schemes.