Senior Software Engineer (AI Tooling)

Company: Roku

Location: Austin, Texas

Type: Full-time

Posted: 2026-10-07

About this role

  • Responsible for designing and implementing secure, reliable AI-powered tools and platforms—using technologies such as large language models and retrieval-augmented generation—and integrating them into core engineering workflows to improve quality, performance, and operational oversight
  • AI Leadership: Architect and guide implementation of AI tooling and pipelines using LLMs, RAG, and MCP, including retrieval design, model orchestration, safety guardrails, and backend integrations
  • Establish standards for data validation, analysis, and anomaly detection; implement automated quality gates to safeguard log and telemetry integrity at scale
  • Define coding and documentation standards for Python-based services and AI-assisted development; conduct code and design reviews to uphold engineering rigor
  • Develop performance testing and monitoring strategies; instrument metrics and health endpoints to drive continuous optimization
  • Technical Delivery: Create and maintain software solutions within the team’s domain; own epics and tasks and delegate work as needed to ensure timely delivery
  • Mentoring and Coaching: Lead onboarding and accelerate ramp-up through structured curricula, shadowing, and clear success metrics
  • Provide educational code/design reviews and formal training; serve as a Subject Matter Expert to unblock teams, elevate standards, and develop future senior engineers
  • People Collaboration: Orchestrate cross-functional alignment with system architects, platform, UI, product, data, and QA to deliver core OS features and high-impact platform improvements on schedule
  • Lead incident triage and root-cause analysis across logging, telemetry, and developer tooling, including AI-assisted workflows with RAG insights and MCP integrations; optimize pipelines for reliability, latency, and cost
  • Business Leadership: Translate company strategy into an engineering roadmap with clear priorities, success metrics, and delivery commitments; make disciplined trade-offs to ma...

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