Job Duties and Responsibilities

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 linting, static analysis, and device farm benchmarking into the AI-assisted development pipeline to optimize target hardware performance
• Establish automated testing frameworks, deep-link automation, and headless performance benchmarks to maintain strict launch time and memory footprint targets

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Core Skills and Competencies (What you'll bring)

• Expert-level mastery of SceneGraph node architecture, task threading, focus chain management, and component lifecycle optimization
• Critical experience leading architecture design, code reviews, and binding engineering decisions for multi-engineer client applications
• Proven ability to translate reference implementations into production BrightScript codebases while preserving behavioral fidelity across complex user flows
• Demonstrated capability in profiling, virtualized rendering, node recycling, and garbage collection tuning on low-memory hardware devices
• AI application expertise in authoring structured technical specifications and validating AI-generated BrightScript output for architectural and performance compliance
• Comprehensive expertise in DRM integration, CSAI/SSAI ad architecture, and third-party SDK implementations within connected TV environments

Additional Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or equivalent) in Computer Science or a relevant technical field
• Experience in high-volume streaming media, OTT, or connected TV product environments

Minimum Requirements

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Minimum Experience: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

Required Technical Skills: Must have at least 5 years of experience with:

• BrightScript application development and SceneGraph node architecture
• Shipping production Roku applications through full Roku Channel Certification
• Architecture ownership and technical sign-off on multi-engineer client applications

Visa sponsorship not available for this role

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $127,050.00/Year - $181,500.00/Year
Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.