Video Baseband Engineer

About CACI

From our headquarters in London, we're busy empowering organisations to make bold, strategic moves with the power of data and technology. Founded in 1975, our operations take place from multiple offices across the UK, Europe and India with over 1600 Full time employees and an annual turnover of £179m.

Our expertise spans industries, from retail and education to public sector and transport - delivering intelligent solutions that drive progress and create measurable impact. Whether it's business intelligence, customer marketing, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, critical national infrastructure or data management, our approach is never one-size-fits-all.

We don't just deliver solutions; we build for the tomorrow's world, all while fostering a culture that allows employees to be their authentic selves and succeed in their careers.

About Network Services

CACI Network Services is a rapidly expanding specialist IT and Networks consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within challenging and exciting environments with our major clients in Global Media, Banking, Government, Telecoms & Utilities

The role

A video baseband engineer is a specialist who works with the unmodulated, raw video and audio signals (baseband signals) within broadcast, live event, or communications systems. They are crucial for ensuring the quality, transmission, and processing of multimedia content. This role often overlaps with a general broadcast engineer or video engineer position.

Key responsibilities

Equipment Management: Setting up, operating, and maintaining specialist video and audio equipment, including cameras, switchers, monitors, and transmission links.

Signal Processing: Handling the digital processing, encoding/decoding (eg, H.264, HEVC), and packaging of video and audio signals into various formats for transmission or on-demand services.

System Integration: Installing and testing new hardware and software facilities, and integrating traditional baseband systems with modern IP-based and cloud-based technologies.

Troubleshooting: Diagnosing and resolving technical faults on equipment and systems quickly, especially during live broadcasts, to minimise service loss.

Quality Control: Monitoring video and audio feeds to ensure optimal quality and adherence to industry standards and regulations (eg, Ofcom in the UK).

Collaboration: Working closely with producers, directors, and other technical staff to ensure a seamless production process.

Core skills, knowledge and experience required

Strong knowledge of analogue and digital systems, IP video, audio/video signal flow, codecs, and file formats is essential.

Practical, hands-on experience with relevant equipment and in the industry is highly valued. Many start in trainee or assistant roles.

Expected behaviours

We have a structured performance management framework which measures continual attainment against key personal behaviours. We believe this is an important part of our success and culture. Joining as a team member we expect you to act as a role model and exemplar against these behaviours which are to be:

Proactive

Adaptable

Flexible

A team player

Reliable

Flexibility

The key to our success is our teamwork and collaboration. We take a hybrid approach - working remotely and coming into the office depending on the business demand and collaboration required as part of the delivery process.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Target based commission package

Matched pension contributions up to 5%

Life Insurance

Personal Accident Insurance

Private Health Insurance from 2nd anniversary

Sickness & Disability income protection from 3rd anniversary

On site gym membership at our Kensington Office.

Equal opportunities

CACI is proud to be an equal employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will:

Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss individual requirements further).

Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.

Our people are unique, and we encourage, and support them, to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.