Roku

Design Engineer, UX Product

Roku
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18 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$200k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the platform that supports Roku UX's AI-assisted design workflows and act as the primary technical contact for workflow leads and engineering.
  • Build and maintain integrations connecting AI tooling with the systems designers use.
  • Maintain versioning, evaluation, and quality regression practices for AI-assisted work.
  • Design secure, compliant infrastructure and patterns for designer-built tools and prototypes using real product data.
  • Own hosting and deployment infrastructure for prototypes, micro-apps, and tools.
  • Support designers with authentication, broken integrations, environment issues, and AI-assisted prototype development.
  • Develop and maintain shared AI tools, workflows, reusable assistants, automations, commands, and UI components.
  • Represent UX infrastructure needs in engineering architecture decisions and align UX tooling with Roku's technical standards.

Requirements

  • Experience in a hybrid design and engineering role bridging both disciplines.
  • Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript or TypeScript, and at least one modern framework such as React, Vue, or Next.js.
  • Experience building or operating AI application tooling, including MCP integrations, custom agents, evaluation harnesses, or comparable LLM infrastructure.
  • Experience with hosting, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab Pages or AWS.
  • Experience integrating APIs and handling real data and secure credentials in prototypes or tools.
  • Experience maintaining shared tooling, component libraries, or developer and designer toolchains.
  • Working knowledge of web application security, compliance, PII handling, and secure data access.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Figma Make, Claude, or v0.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Design experience or strong design sensibility, including participation in design critiques and fluency reading Figma files.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Design Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • The role is hybrid, with employees generally working in the office Monday through Thursday and Fridays generally flexible for remote work.
  • Benefits may include health, dental, vision, life, disability, commuter, retirement, mental health, financial wellness, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
  • The role is eligible for equity awards.
  • Roku provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments during the hiring process.

Tech Stack

AWSCSSHTMLJavaScriptNext.jsReactTypeScriptVue.js
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About Roku

1,001-5,000 employees

Roku builds streaming players, Roku-branded TVs and audio gear, and the Roku OS licensed to TV manufacturers. Its platform supports ad-supported and subscription streaming, including The Roku Channel and Roku Originals, and underpins a significant advertising business. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker ROKU.

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