Principal Design Engineer

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. 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 the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. 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. We’re looking for someone who considers themselves equal parts designer and engineer and loves to operate in the space where the two disciplines meet. You’re passionate about collaborating on ideas as part of a team then bringing those ideas to life in the form of real, tangible, high-fidelity prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and design tools. In terms of core skill set, you look like a front-end engineer, but you think like a designer. You have a strong eye for detail and biases towards speed, innovation, and the end user experience. You're a self-starter and take initiative; you seize opportunities rather than waiting for tasks to be assigned. You're comfortable working independently and as part of a squad. You’ll be joining a small, but mighty Design Engineering team which sits within the Viewing Experience, Product and Design organization at Peacock. Our team’s mission is to “bring ideas to life, enabling innovation through experimentation and automation”. Your primary function on this team will be to build prototypes that explore new features and experiences for the Peacock app across all platforms. Additionally, you’ll build utilities and Figma plugins that automate processes and help our designers do their jobs faster and better. What You’ll Do Work with designers, product managers, and user researchers to build prototypes that aid in design exploration, usability research, and stakeholder buy-in Build tools and plugins that make the design process better, easier, and faster Improve on initial design concepts through the prototyping process Build and maintain shared toolkits and codebases that make prototyping easier and faster Build and access APIs that pull live data into prototypes Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies, adopting them for use as needed Look for ways to improve our prototyping processes and capabilities Take lead on projects and start new frameworks, toolkits, and codebases from scratch Mentor other members of the team, helping them level-up their skills and experience