Principal BrightScript Engineer

EchoStar is hiring a Principal BrightScript Engineer to build and maintain the foundational Roku platform for streaming applications. The role focuses on SceneGraph architecture, media playback, DRM integration, performance optimization, and automated quality and testing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Map production OTT modules to BrightScript equivalents while mitigating high-complexity risks in player state machines and DRM integration
• Design a scalable scene stack, deep-linking routing architecture, and thread-safe task model for high-performance application execution
• Enforce component library performance standards, field observer practices, and focus chain integrity across dynamic application themes
• Integrate BrightScript-specific linting, static analysis, and device farm benchmarking into the AI-assisted development pipeline to optimize target hardware performance
• Establish automated testing frameworks, deep-link automation, and headless performance benchmarks to maintain strict launch time and memory footprint targets

Skills

• Expert-level mastery of SceneGraph node architecture, task threading, focus chain management, and component lifecycle optimization
• Critical experience leading architecture design, code reviews, and binding engineering decisions for multi-engineer client applications
• Proven ability to translate reference implementations into production BrightScript codebases while preserving behavioral fidelity across complex user flows
• Demonstrated capability in profiling, virtualized rendering, node recycling, and garbage collection tuning on low-memory hardware devices
• AI application expertise in authoring structured technical specifications and validating AI-generated BrightScript output for architectural and performance compliance
• Comprehensive expertise in DRM integration, CSAI/SSAI ad architecture, and third-party SDK implementations within connected TV environments
• Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Minimum Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• BrightScript application development and SceneGraph node architecture
• Shipping production Roku applications through full Roku Channel Certification
• Architecture ownership and technical sign-off on multi-engineer client applications
• Must have at least 5 years of experience with:
• Advanced degree (MS or equivalent) in Computer Science or a relevant technical field
• Experience in high-volume streaming media, OTT, or connected TV product environments

Benefits

• Flexible spending accounts
• HSA
• A 401(k) plan with company match
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Career opportunities
• Flexible time away plan

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