Sr. Design Engineer

NBCUniversal • New York, NY

1d • $150,000 - $195,000

About The Position

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees