NBCUniversal

Senior Design Engineer

NBCUniversal

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $195,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ApacheAWSAzureFirebaseGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

  • 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

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
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • paid leave
  • tuition reimbursement
  • a variety of other discounts and perks

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
HTMLCSSJavaScriptReactAPIsProgressive Web AppsFigma pluginsTypeScriptNext.jsgenerative AI
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingpresentationcuriositytechnical fluencyautonomyfeedback incorporationcross-functional teamwork
Certifications
Degree in Computer ScienceDegree in Human-Computer InteractionDegree in Design