Associate Design Engineer

Job Description

We’re looking for a Design Engineer I 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 eager to learn from senior teammates, building your ability to work independently, 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 helping build high-impact prototypes that explore new features and experiences across the Peacock ecosystem, while also contributing to design tools, Figma plugins, and AI-powered utilities that help our teams work faster, smarter, and with greater confidence. You’ll work on specific features and components, with guidance and support from senior members of the team.

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
• Translate abstract ideas and early concepts into interactive, high-fidelity prototypes for specific features and components across web, mobile, and TV platforms
• Help 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
• Contribute to shared toolkits, frameworks, and codebases that accelerate prototyping across the team
• Contribute technical and creative ideas to projects, including experimenting with new frameworks, tools, or approaches with guidance from senior team members
• 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
• Regularly present and demo work to the immediate team, seeking feedback and flagging issues early as you grow your craft

Qualifications

• 1+ 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
• Working proficiency in HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript, and React
• Experience using generative AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Augment, Cursor, etc.) to assist with coding and design-related tasks
• Working knowledge of design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong eye for visual detail and a foundational understanding of interaction design principles, user experience best practices, and modern design workflows
• Some experience contributing to software projects in a team environment, including peer code reviews, version control, and shared coding standards
• Familiarity with building and/or consuming APIs and working with live or structured data
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly explain ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience presenting and demoing work to peers and cross-functional partners
• Ability to collaborate effectively with designers, engineers, product managers, and user researchers
• Ability to complete assignments on time and without handholding, with comfort asking questions and flagging issues early
• Curiosity and technical fluency around AI models, APIs, and limitations, with an emphasis on practical application over theory

Nice-To-Have:

• Internship, co-op, or academic project experience in design engineering, front-end development, or a related field
• Exposure to or experience integrating AI capabilities into prototypes, internal tools, or workflows (e.g., content generation, summarization, analysis, automation)
• Experience developing Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
• Experience developing Figma plugins and working with the Figma API
• Familiarity with modern frameworks and languages such as TypeScript, Next.js, or LightningJS
• Experience with platforms and tools such as Node.js, GraphQL, GitHub, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, Firebase, Mixpanel, Contentful, Vercel, Xcode, and Apache, and with web and cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows
• Experience developing mobile or cross-platform applications, including React Native, Swift, and SwiftUI
• Experience with video content, media-rich interfaces, TV-based platforms, or large-scale consumer applications
• Experience building tools or experiences for international or global audiences
• Prior experience in experimentation-heavy, innovation-focused, or prototyping-centered teams

Hybrid : This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.

Salary range: $120,000 - $165,000

Additional Information

As 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. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.