Sr. Design Engineer

NBCUniversal•New York, NY

7h•$150,000 - $195,000

About The Position

Our Media Group portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. The Global Streaming Platform powers the best entertainment experiences from Peacock, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, and Showmax. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio supported by media industry leaders Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth, and consistently offer a best-in-class consumer experience across more than 70 countries. Most importantly, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire our people to thrive. The Global Streaming Product team lives and breathes design excellence. We’re a cross-functional team of product managers, UX researchers, UX designers, product engineers, and data scientists. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, TV, movies and more. Our work is central to our mission to deliver a future-focused user experience across our best-in-class streaming platforms. Together, we’re focused on getting customers to content they love, faster and easier. About the Role/What We’re Looking For We’re looking for a Senior Design Engineer who thrives at the intersection of interaction design, front-end engineering, and emerging technologies. You are passionate about collaborating on early-stage ideas and bringing them to life as real, tangible, high-fidelity prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and internal tools that help teams learn faster, make better decisions, and automate manual tasks. In terms of core skill set, you look like a front-end engineer, but you think like a designer. You bring a strong visual and interaction sensibility, paired with pragmatic engineering judgment. You bias toward speed, clarity, and craft, while maintaining a deep respect for usability, performance, and maintainability. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, self-directing your work, and proactively identifying opportunities where prototyping, tooling, or automation can unlock new possibilities. You’re also excited about how AI is reshaping design and product workflows. You don’t just use AI tools—you experiment with them, integrate them into prototypes and pipelines, and explore how generative and assistive AI can meaningfully improve user experiences, internal workflows, and design quality. You’ll be joining a small but mighty Design Engineering team within the Viewing Experience, Product and Design organization at Peacock. Our mission is to bring ideas to life and power innovation. Your primary focus will be building high-impact prototypes that explore new features and experiences across the Peacock ecosystem, while also creating design tools, Figma plugins, and AI-powered utilities that help our teams work faster, smarter, and with greater confidence.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant professional experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, or a related hybrid role
Degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience
Portfolio of relevant work and code samples demonstrating strong interaction design sensibility, technical execution, and polished final outcomes
Very strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript, and React
Strong experience working with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
Proven experience contributing to software projects in a team environment, including peer code reviews, version control, and shared coding standards
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly explain ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
Strong experience building and/or consuming APIs and working with live or structured data
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with designers, engineers, product managers, and user researchers
Comfort working autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces, from concept through execution
Solid understanding of interaction design principles, user experience best practices, and modern design workflows
Experience presenting and demoing work to peers, cross-functional partners, and leadership
Hands-on experience using generative AI tools and platforms (e.g., OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) in prototyping, experimentation, or tooling
Experience integrating AI capabilities into prototypes, internal tools, or workflows (e.g., content generation, summarization, analysis, automation)
Curiosity and technical fluency around AI models, APIs, and limitations, with an emphasis on practical application over theory
Experience developing Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
Experience developing Figma plugins and working with the Figma API
Experience working with video content or media-rich interfaces
Familiarity with modern frameworks and languages such as TypeScript, Next.js, or LightningJS
Experience with platforms and tools such as Node.js, GraphQL, GitHub, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, Firebase, Mixpanel, Contentful, Vercel, Xcode, and Apache

Nice To Haves

Experience with React Native, Swift, and SwiftUI
Experience with web and cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows
Experience building tools or experiences for international or global audiences
Familiarity with video streaming, TV-based platforms, or large-scale consumer applications
Experience developing mobile applications or cross-platform experiences
Prior experience in experimentation-heavy, innovation-focused, or prototyping-centered teams

Responsibilities

Partner closely with designers, product managers, engineers, and user researchers to build prototypes that support design exploration, usability testing, experimentation, and stakeholder alignment
Rapidly translate abstract ideas and early concepts into interactive, high-fidelity prototypes across web, mobile, and TV platforms
Design and build internal tools, utilities, and Figma plugins that improve design quality, consistency, speed, and scalability
Explore and apply AI-driven approaches to prototyping, design automation, content exploration, and workflow optimization
Integrate live or simulated data into prototypes by building or consuming APIs
Improve and evolve initial design concepts through iterative prototyping and feedback
Build and maintain shared toolkits, frameworks, and codebases that accelerate prototyping across the team
Take technical and creative ownership of projects, including starting new frameworks, tools, or experimental codebases from scratch
Stay current with industry trends, emerging interaction patterns, and new technologies, and proactively apply them where they create leverage
Continuously look for opportunities to improve how the team prototypes, experiments, and collaborates
Mentor and support other design engineers, helping raise the bar for craft, technical quality, and impact across the team

Benefits

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks.
Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.

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