Design Engineer, Roku
UX Product
$200-220k
Office located in San Jose, CA
Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
Posted today
Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Posted today
$200-220k
Office located in San Jose, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in a hybrid design and engineering role with the ability to bridge both disciplines
- Proficiency in web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and at least one modern framework such as React, Vue, or Next.js
- Experience building or operating AI application tooling, such as MCP server integrations, custom agent development, evaluation harnesses, or comparable infrastructure for LLM-based products
- Systems thinking across tool chains, with the ability to design how separate tools compose into a single coherent workflow
- Experience with hosting, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab Pages, AWS)
- Familiarity with API integration and working with real data in prototypes or tools, including secure credential handling
- Experience building or maintaining shared tooling, component libraries, or developer and designer toolchains
- Working knowledge of security and compliance requirements relevant to web applications, including PII handling and secure data access
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Figma Make, Claude, v0, or similar
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both designers and engineers from different backgrounds
- Design experience or strong design sensibility, including the ability to participate meaningfully in a design critique, read a Figma file fluently, and recognize when a prototype needs more than a technical fix
- A degree in Computer Science, Design Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- Serve as the technical owner of the platform AI-assisted design workflows are built on, acting as the primary point of contact for workflow leads and engineering
- Build and maintain integrations that connect AI tooling to the systems designers already work in
- Maintain practices that keep AI-assisted work reliable, including versioning, evaluation, and quality regression checks
- Partner with leads across UX to establish an integrated, AI-assisted design process that raises both quality and efficiency
- Map and maintain how work moves between stages, ensuring the right context travels with it and each stage produces what the next one needs
- Make outputs structured and legible so the team can measure and improve the parts of the process that matter most
- Establish and maintain secure, compliant patterns for designer-built tools and prototypes that touch real product data, in partnership with security and privacy teams
- Build infrastructure that lets designers prototype against real data and live content safely
- Serve as the technical support resource for designers building AI-assisted prototypes, unblocking authentication issues, broken integrations, and environment problems
- Own hosting and deployment infrastructure for designer-built prototypes, micro-apps, and tools
- Help designers develop and maintain a shared library of AI tools and workflows, including reusable assistants, automations, and commands
- Support designers as they build out a shared UI component library for prototyping
- Act as the primary liaison between UX and engineering on infrastructure matters, aligning on shared standards and ensuring consistency with Roku's broader technical systems
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users.
Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library. Then, after successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released. In 2026, it was announced that media giant FOX would acquire Roku, which the companies say will create the third largest player in US TV by share of viewing.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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