Sr. Software Engineer

Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers. From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines. About the team Roku TV is where embedded systems, media experiences, and intelligent software come together at massive scale. The Roku TV organization builds technology used on millions of TVs globally, and the team is already applying AI to demanding TV problems in resource-constrained environments where quality, performance, and reliability matter. As part of this team, you will help define how agentic AI systems are designed, built, and operated for Roku TV use cases. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who treats AI agent design as an engineering discipline: architecting durable systems, grounding them in the right context, integrating them with tools and services, and making them reliable in production. About the role We are looking for a hands-on, systems-oriented Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and maintain intelligent agents and copilots that drive automation, accelerate workflows, and unlock new product and platform capabilities for Roku TV. You will own the full lifecycle of agent development—from prototyping and architecture through orchestration, evaluation, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement. You will contribute directly to Roku’s AI strategy by engineering reusable components, optimizing agent workflows, and ensuring strong real-world performance in production environments. For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $244,900 - $321,100 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off. What you’ll be doing Architect, develop, and deploy AI agents and copilots for Roku TV use cases, integrating them with internal systems, tools, and services. Own end-to-end agentic systems from concept to production, including model selection, prompt and context design, retrieval strategies, backend services, and conversational interfaces. Design and implement single-agent and multi-agent orchestration patterns, including handoffs, delegation, and cooperative task execution. Build scalable RAG and context pipelines that provide high-quality grounding for AI systems and keep them aligned with evolving data sources and business logic. Implement tool-calling, function-calling, and MCP-style integrations so agents can safely take actions and interact with the systems around them. Create reusable agent templates, modular components, and paved-path patterns that accelerate adoption across teams and use cases. Establish strong evaluation, observability, and monitoring for conversation quality, task success rate, latency, cost, and overall system performance. Build safeguards that improve production readiness and reliability, including testing pipelines, controlled rollouts, drift detection, and mechanisms that prevent error amplification in multi-step workflows. Prototype quickly, run experiments, and translate successful ideas into durable, scalable software solutions. Partner closely with ... (truncated, view full listing at source)