# Principal BrightScript Engineer

What Success Looks Like (Objectives): The Principal Roku BrightScript Engineer joins the Client Platform Engineering team to build and maintain the foundational Roku platform powering streaming applications across a shared codebase strategy. This role addresses complex engineering challenges across SceneGraph architecture, media playback, DRM flows, and performance optimization on resource-constrained hardware. The position bridges reference implementations with production BrightScript code while establishing automated quality gates and AI-assisted software development workflows. Direct collaboration with product and engineering leadership ensures high-performance delivery across all target hardware tiers. What Success Looks Like (Objectives) 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 li

- **Id**: 4245577
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/echostar-principal-brightscript-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Englewood, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-23T19:52:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T18:56:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 113
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9780
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Internet Service Providers, Mobile Networks, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 1846584
- **Name**: EchoStar
- **Domain**: echostar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/echostar>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jibe

## Salary

- **Min**: 127050
- **Max**: 208725
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 208725

## Technologies

- **Deep Linking** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 113

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: close; At: 2026-11-13T12:29:26Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:32:45Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-13T18:56:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.311
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 113
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T00:01:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 208725
- **Is top pay**: yes

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