Digital Cinema Production Engineer

MPS - Motion Picture Solutions

Digital Cinema Production Engineer ensuring precise audio-visual standards and delivering seamless film releases. Play a key role in maintaining and evolving world-class cinema postproduction and review environments in MPS.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudTCP/IP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Digital Cinema Production Engineer is responsible for the engineering, maintenance and ongoing improvement of MPS’s cinema postproduction environments.
Maintain and uphold reference-grade vision and sound standards across all cinema review rooms, ensuring consistency, accuracy and reliability.
Install, configure and commission postproduction and review room technology, including projection systems, monitoring, audio systems and associated infrastructure.
Perform colour calibration of cinema projectors and broadcast-grade video monitors to industry standards.
Carry out multi-channel audio calibration for cinema and review environments, ensuring accurate monitoring and compliance with required specifications.
Design, manage and fault-find SDI-based video routing systems and AES-based audio monitoring paths.
Support and validate mastering software platforms used across the facility, including Clipster, Transkoder and DaVinci Resolve.
Install, configure and support broadcast-level equipment, diagnosing and resolving complex hardware and signal-path issues.
Support TCP/IP-based systems within postproduction environments, including basic network fault finding and integration with audio-over-IP technologies.
Contribute to the maintenance and development of documentation, standards and engineering procedures.
Work collaboratively with postproduction, operations and technical teams in a fast-paced, high-pressure production environment.
Assist in evaluating new technologies, tools and workflows to support future technical and operational requirements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Educated to degree level in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience (desirable).
Minimum of 2 years’ experience working within a high-end or elite postproduction, broadcast, or cinema technology environment.
Proven experience calibrating cinema projectors and broadcast reference monitors.
Proven experience calibrating multi-channel audio playback systems.
Hands-on experience installing, configuring and fault-finding broadcast or cinema-grade equipment.
Working knowledge of electrical safety within technical environments.
Experience with mastering and postproduction software such as Clipster, Transkoder, and/or DaVinci Resolve (desirable).
Familiarity with audio mastering workflows using Avid Pro Tools (audio-focused, not Media Composer) (desirable).
Exposure to Adobe Creative Cloud applications within a postproduction context (desirable)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Access to EOT(Employee Ownership Trust) tax-free bonus
25 days' Annual Leave
Enhanced Parental Leave
Enhanced Sick Leave
Retention recognition - extra perks at key milestones: from increased employer pension to private medical care
Birthday or work anniversary day off on us
Cinema perks, including access to premieres and special screenings
Rental Housing Deposit Support
Access to hybrid and remote working arrangements
Volunteering Day off

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Hard Skills & Tools

colour calibrationmulti-channel audio calibrationSDI-based video routingAES-based audio monitoringinstallation of broadcast equipmentconfiguration of postproduction technologyfault-finding in signal pathsnetwork fault findingaudio-over-IP technologiestechnical documentation

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitycommunicationtime managementteamworkorganizational skillsability to work under pressureevaluating new technologies