Roku

Senior AI Transformation Engineer

San Jose, California. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will drive end-to-end delivery of agentic AI systems to transform business functions. You will embed with technical and business teams to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI solutions.

What you will do

  • Drive AI deployments from discovery through production rollout
  • Embed with business and technical teams to identify automation opportunities
  • Prepare scopes of work and project plans for prototypes and production
  • Design, build, test, and deploy production-grade agentic AI applications
  • Reimagine functions as AI-native, agent-powered systems
  • Connect solutions to data platforms, internal systems, and enterprise APIs
  • Lead onboarding, enablement, and change management for served teams
  • Define and track success through production adoption and business value
  • Collaborate with AI Ambassadors and mentor teammates
  • Codify reusable patterns into the broader AI platform strategy

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering, full-stack engineering, or technical deployment experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Hands-on experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs, generative models, or agentic frameworks
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and decompose open-ended problems
  • Experience working directly with non-technical teams and stakeholders
  • Track record of building solutions that achieve adoption and measurable impact
  • Strong product sense
  • High autonomy and ownership
  • Experience with modern AI engineering patterns such as RAG, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, tool-use, human-in-the-loop controls, model evaluation, and MLOps/LLMOps
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD practices
  • Experience with modern data architectures and relational databases

Nice to have

  • Fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain including coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Equity awards
  • Life insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Wellness benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Mental health and financial wellness support
  • Commuter options
  • Retirement options (401(k)/pension)

About the company

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The company connects consumers to content, enables publishers to monetize audiences, and provides advertisers with engagement capabilities.