Senior Design Engineer at NBC Universal – Brentford | Jobyssey

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.

What You’ll Do:

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 design, prototyping, 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

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 using generative AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Augment, Cursor, Antigravity, etc.) to assist with coding and design-related tasks.

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

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-Have:

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

Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

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