NPR (National Public Radio)
Senior Design Engineer, Content Production Technology
Remote Design Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 8, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior Design Engineer, Content Production Technology
Requirements and responsibilities
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Responsibilities
- Design-to-Engineering Translation: Bridge the gap between product design and engineering execution by translating high-level product strategy into clean, component-based wireframes and technical user experience pathways.
- Rapid Prototyping: Build functional, high-fidelity interactive code prototypes to validate design concepts with content creators and stakeholders before final development.
- Front-End Integration: Write production-ready front-end code, establishing standard styling patterns and providing immediate technical design resolutions to developers to optimize development cycles.
- Workflow Optimization: Embed deeply within the Nexus and Grove CMS ecosystems, engineering faster, highly efficient publishing workflows customized to our editorial workflows.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Product Managers, UX Designers, and engineering teams to co-develop functional requirements that maximize platform usability.
- Design Cohort Engagement: Actively participate in NPR's broader design cohort, collaborating with specialists from NPR’s Product and Audience Technology (PAT) teams to scale design best practices.
- Editorial & Creative Alignment: Work closely with NPR Editorial, Programming, and Music teams to maintain a deep operational understanding of publishing, distribution, and audience engagement requirements.
- User Advocacy: Champion intuitive usability for both internal content creators and external public media audiences, ensuring that development paths prioritize user needs over technical convenience.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working in a hybrid UX Engineering, Design Technology, or Front-End Development role.
- Demonstrated portfolio of designing user-centered digital systems and publishing products at scale.
- Proven technical experience translating abstract design concepts into structured front-end development requirements.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of building alignment across editorial, design, and engineering cohorts.
- Strong technical aptitude, including the ability to actively participate in systems architecture, development tradeoff discussions, and release planning.
- Experience operating within digital media, journalism, or highly content-rich digital ecosystems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience working within complex headless CMS architectures or multi-platform digital publishing environments.
- Deep understanding of enterprise-level design systems, token management, and scalable component libraries.
- Experience working in public media, collaborative networks, or union-represented engineering environments.
Required Skills/Competencies
- Advanced Front-End Development: Highly proficient in HTML5, CSS/SCSS, and modern JavaScript frameworks (such as Angular or React).
- Prototyping Software: Expert level execution in Figma, creating everything from wireframes to highly interactive, micro-interaction models.
- Systems Thinking: Strong ability to conceptualize, scale, and document complex web layouts, information architectures, and modular component structures.
- Web Accessibility Standard Compliance: Thorough understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA standards and semantic front-end coding best practices to ensure digital accessibility.
- Strategic Collaboration: Excellent listening and facilitation skills to negotiate requirements between technical engineers and creative editorial staff.
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, Interaction Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
Work Location & Requirements
- NPR Remote-Permitted: This is a remote-permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, D.C. office, but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves. You will have the option of working (a) remotely from a location of your choosing within the United States that is supported by NPR; (b) on-site at an NPR facility, based on the availability of desks and approval from NPR; or (c) a combination of both. Regardless of where you choose to work from, you may be expected to travel to other locations from time to time to perform the duties of your position.
Job Type
- This is a full-time, exempt position.
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