AV Systems Engineer
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Alexandria, VA - USA
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Job Summary
Overview
The Audio-Visual (AV) Systems Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) serves as the ultimate technical authority and principal architect for all video teleconferencing (VTC) digital signage multi-media conference spaces and hybrid collaboration environments across the USPTO enterprise. Under the End User Support Operations Support (EUSOS) contract this role owns the technical roadmap architectural baselines and engineering integrity of communication hubs supporting over 15000 distributed federal workers and executives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Architect standardize and maintain the blueprint configurations for all USPTO conference rooms executive boardrooms hearing rooms and hybrid collaboration spaces
- Engineer the precise interfaces where AV hardware meets backend IT infrastructure. Partner with Network Operations to design optimal Multicast/Unicast configurations VLAN segmentation and Quality of Service (QoS) mappings for flawless AV-over-IP (AVoIP) delivery
- Collaborate with Security Operations & Enterprise Monitoring to ensure all AV/VTC endpoint firmware control code and UC applications fully comply with federal security guidelines including NIST 800-53 controls and DISA STIGs
- Serve as the absolute technical backstop for the contract. Diagnose and resolve complex intermittent or systemic AV/VTC failures that defeat Tier 13 operational technician teams
- Lead technical forensic investigations into major collaboration space outages or systemic bugs. Document findings and implement permanent enterprise-wide remediation
- Maintain an onsite engineering lab to model test and validate firmware updates software patches and new hardware components prior to deployment within campus-wide rollouts
- Review optimize and oversee custom control programming configurations to maintain seamless unified user interfaces across different space types.
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Requirements
- Master-level engineering mastery of enterprise Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platforms including Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) Cisco Webex Room systems and Zoom Rooms Advanced master-level command of unified endpoint management architectures (such as Microsoft Intune MECM/SCCM Group Policy Objects) across hybrid Windows 10/11 and macOS environments
- Extensive hands-on experience designing configuring and programming/troubleshooting major AV ecosystems including Control & Video Distribution: Crestron (NVX DM) Extron AMX Audio DSPs: Biamp (Tesira) Q-SYS Shure (Ecosystem architecture
- Deep understanding of enterprise virtualization technologies identity management ecosystems (Active Directory Azure AD/Entra ID) and multi-factor authentication protocols
- Expert understanding of AV-over-IP standards digital video/audio signal flow matrix routing and EDID/HDCP management
- Strong diagnostic grasp of enterprise networking architecture: TCP/IP routing IGMP snooping for multicast video 802.1X authentication and firewall traversal for secure VTC traffic
- Experience organizing and tracking multi-phase infrastructure engineering milestones using Microsoft Project Professional
Educational Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Systems Engineering Information Technology or an equivalent technical field (or equivalent master-level hands-on experience)
Compensation
$75000 - $80000
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