Senior Design Engineer - NBCUniversal - Brentford, United Kingdom

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. 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.

Our 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.

Job Description

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 

Qualifications

• 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