Software Engineer, Early Careers AI/UI

About the Role

Roku is building real agentic capability into the platform behind 100M+ streaming households, and we need engineers who can make agents work on top of systems that already carry serious load.

This is a systems engineering job first. The agent work sits on telemetry, distributed services, and physical devices, and it is the systems half that makes it hard. If you have built something agentic and you also know why a schema change matters when it ships to millions of devices, this is the role for you!

About the Team

Join the Roku OS Platform UI team — the engineers behind Roku's home screen, Roku Channel, and other content discovery and browse experiences that greet every Roku user the moment they turn on their TV. Our work ships to hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.

Engineers on this team own features end-to-end — from the OS platform layer through Application and UI to cloud integration — and collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering partners to bring ambitious ideas to production at scale.

What You Will Work On

• Multi-step agents that do real work in production: detecting regressions across services, bisecting the commits that caused them, proposing fixes, generating and reviewing code that other engineers review and merge.
• Internal tooling that your colleagues actually adopt: skills, harnesses, and services that make the team faster, rather than demos that get admired once.
• Real-time telemetry and event processing at streaming scale, under the CPU and memory constraints that come with shipping to devices in people’s homes.
• Agent problems that only exist when there is hardware in the loop: physical feedback, device fleets, and signals you cannot simulate on a laptop.

What We Are Looking For

• Up to 3–4 years of professional engineering experience since finishing your studies.
• Strong systems or infrastructure fundamentals: real-time data, telemetry, distributed systems, platforms, or device work.
• Something agentic that you have built, shipped, and that other people use (a work project or a serious personal multi-step project, rather than a wrapper around a chat window).
• A clear account of how you stay accountable for code you did not type (design-first, review discipline, or your own gates).
• A view on where agents are not good enough yet and why.
• Existing right to work in the US (visa sponsorship is not available for this role).

Project Ahsoka

This role sits inside Project Ahsoka, our program for early career engineers building agentic systems. You are paired with a mentor, join a squad team with other Ahsoka engineers, and become an AI hiring sponsor to help set the bar for future cohorts.

How We Interview

Working fluently with AI tools is an explicit expectation. The interview loop includes a hands-on engineering exercise on an unfamiliar codebase using the tools you would normally reach for, assessing how you approach novel problems rather than API memorization.

Work Model

Roku engineering works in the San Jose office Monday through Thursday, with a flexible Friday.