Software Engineer, Embedded Agentic AI

Roku, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Roku TV is seeking 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Job description

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 a massive scale. The Roku TV organization develops technology used on millions of TVs worldwide, and the team is already applying AI to challenging 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 $170,000 - $210,000 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