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We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.\nOur impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.\n 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.\nThe 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.\nAbout the Role/What We’re Looking For:\nWe’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.\nIn 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.\nYou’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.\nYou’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.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nPartner closely with designers, product managers, engineers, and user researchers to build prototypes that support design exploration, usability testing, experimentation, and stakeholder alignment\n\nRapidly translate abstract ideas and early concepts into interactive, high-fidelity prototypes across web, mobile, and TV platforms\n\nDesign and build internal tools, utilities, and Figma plugins that improve design quality, consistency, speed, and scalability\n\nExplore and apply AI-driven approaches to design, prototyping, automation, content exploration, and workflow optimization\n\nIntegrate live or simulated data into prototypes by building or consuming APIs\n\nImprove and evolve initial design concepts through iterative prototyping and feedback\n\nBuild and maintain shared toolkits, frameworks, and codebases that accelerate prototyping across the team\n\nTake technical and creative ownership of projects, including starting new frameworks, tools, or experimental codebases from scratch\n\nStay current with industry trends, emerging interaction patterns, and new technologies, and proactively apply them where they create leverage\n\nContinuously look for opportunities to improve how the team prototypes, experiments, and collaborates\n\nMentor and support other design engineers, helping raise the bar for craft, technical quality, and impact across the team\n\n 5+ years of relevant professional experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, or a related hybrid role\n\nDegree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience\n\nPortfolio of relevant work and code samples demonstrating strong interaction design sensibility, technical execution, and polished final outcomes\n\nVery strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript, and React\n\nStrong experience using generative AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Augment, Cursor, Antigravity, etc.) to assist with coding and design-related tasks.\n\nStrong experience working with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite\n\nProven experience contributing to software projects in a team environment, including peer code reviews, version control, and shared coding standards\n\nStrong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly explain ideas to technical and non-technical audiences\n\nStrong experience building and/or consuming APIs and working with live or structured data\n\nDemonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with designers, engineers, product managers, and user researchers\n\nComfort working autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces, from concept through execution\n\nSolid understanding of interaction design principles, user experience best practices, and modern design workflows\n\nExperience presenting and demoing work to peers, cross-functional partners, and leadership\n\nExperience integrating AI capabilities into prototypes, internal tools, or workflows (e.g., content generation, summarization, analysis, automation)\n\nCuriosity and technical fluency around AI models, APIs, and limitations, with an emphasis on practical application over theory\n\nExperience developing Progressive Web Apps (PWA)\n\nExperience developing Figma plugins and working with the Figma API\n\nExperience working with video content or media-rich interfaces\n\nFamiliarity with modern frameworks and languages such as TypeScript, Next.js, or LightningJS\n\nExperience with platforms and tools such as Node.js, GraphQL, GitHub, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, Firebase, Mixpanel, Contentful, Vercel, Xcode, and Apache\n\nNice-To-Have:\nExperience with React Native, Swift, and SwiftUI\n\nExperience with web and cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows\n\nExperience building tools or experiences for international or global audiences\n\nFamiliarity with video streaming, TV-based platforms, or large-scale consumer applications\n\nExperience developing mobile applications or cross-platform experiences\n\nPrior experience in experimentation-heavy, innovation-focused, or prototyping-centered teams\n\nHybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule\nAs 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. 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