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Mechanical Engineer roles at Crunchyroll sit at the intersection of consumer hardware, studio infrastructure, and physical production support for one of the world's largest anime streaming platforms. Crunchyroll has a track record of sponsoring international engineers across H-1B, E-3, TN, and OPT pathways.
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Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.
Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our LRX Core team, focused on building the shared architecture and foundational layers that power Crunchyroll experiences across Smart TVs, Game Consoles, and other connected devices.
In this role, you will design and implement core client frameworks, shared modules, and platform-level capabilities that enable multiple product teams to build consistently and efficiently. You will play a key role in shaping our HTML5-based architecture, driving technical direction, and ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across devices.
This role requires strong frontend expertise (JavaScript, TypeScript, React) and experience working with performance-constrained or platform-specific environments.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Architect and Build Core Platform Capabilities: Design, implement, and evolve shared client architecture, frameworks, and libraries used across Smart TVs and Game Consoles.
- Drive Cross-Platform Consistency: Define and enforce patterns for navigation, state management, rendering, and performance to ensure consistent behavior across devices.
- Lead Complex Technical Initiatives: Own and deliver large, cross-team projects with multiple dependencies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural goals.
- Define Event-Driven and Scalable Systems: Design systems that support modular, event-driven architectures and enable extensibility across multiple clients and teams.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to align on requirements, unblock development, and drive shared solutions.
- Code Quality and Technical Leadership: Lead code reviews, provide actionable feedback, and establish best practices that improve maintainability and scalability.
- Performance and Reliability: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, memory constraints, and platform-specific limitations across connected devices.
- Mentorship and Team Growth: Support and mentor engineers, helping raise the technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration.
- Documentation and Enablement: Create clear technical documentation and guidance to enable adoption of shared systems across teams.
In the role of Senior Engineer, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, LRX.
We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco, CA.
ABOUT YOU
We get excited about candidates, like you, because you have...
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on frontend or client-side engineering.
- Frontend Expertise: Deep experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, including building scalable and maintainable applications.
- Platform / Architecture Experience: Proven ability to design and deliver complex systems, frameworks, or shared libraries used across multiple teams or products.
- Connected Devices (Preferred): Experience building applications for Smart TVs, Game Consoles, or other constrained environments (or strong interest in this space).
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead projects, influence architectural decisions, and drive alignment across teams.
- Problem Solving: Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially in cross-module or platform-specific scenarios.
- Collaboration: Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing dependencies in distributed environments.
- Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Fan Experiences team at Crunchyroll plays a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our users' experiences. We partner with platform engineers, designers, and product teams to build immersive, performant applications that delight users across a growing range of devices. Our team thrives on action, innovation, and a shared commitment to raising the bar. We are curious, data-driven, and passionate about continuously improving the way fans experience anime.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING AT CRUNCHYROLL
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
COMPENSATION
- Pay Transparency - San Francisco, CA
- Pay Range: $203,400 - $235,000 USD
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
ABOUT OUR VALUES
We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value
- Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
- Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs:
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.
Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.
ABOUT CRUNCHYROLL
Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.
Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our LRX Core team, focused on building the shared architecture and foundational layers that power Crunchyroll experiences across Smart TVs, Game Consoles, and other connected devices.
In this role, you will design and implement core client frameworks, shared modules, and platform-level capabilities that enable multiple product teams to build consistently and efficiently. You will play a key role in shaping our HTML5-based architecture, driving technical direction, and ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across devices.
This role requires strong frontend expertise (JavaScript, TypeScript, React) and experience working with performance-constrained or platform-specific environments.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Architect and Build Core Platform Capabilities: Design, implement, and evolve shared client architecture, frameworks, and libraries used across Smart TVs and Game Consoles.
- Drive Cross-Platform Consistency: Define and enforce patterns for navigation, state management, rendering, and performance to ensure consistent behavior across devices.
- Lead Complex Technical Initiatives: Own and deliver large, cross-team projects with multiple dependencies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural goals.
- Define Event-Driven and Scalable Systems: Design systems that support modular, event-driven architectures and enable extensibility across multiple clients and teams.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to align on requirements, unblock development, and drive shared solutions.
- Code Quality and Technical Leadership: Lead code reviews, provide actionable feedback, and establish best practices that improve maintainability and scalability.
- Performance and Reliability: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, memory constraints, and platform-specific limitations across connected devices.
- Mentorship and Team Growth: Support and mentor engineers, helping raise the technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration.
- Documentation and Enablement: Create clear technical documentation and guidance to enable adoption of shared systems across teams.
In the role of Senior Engineer, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, LRX.
We are considering applicants for the location(s) of San Francisco, CA.
ABOUT YOU
We get excited about candidates, like you, because you have...
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on frontend or client-side engineering.
- Frontend Expertise: Deep experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, including building scalable and maintainable applications.
- Platform / Architecture Experience: Proven ability to design and deliver complex systems, frameworks, or shared libraries used across multiple teams or products.
- Connected Devices (Preferred): Experience building applications for Smart TVs, Game Consoles, or other constrained environments (or strong interest in this space).
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead projects, influence architectural decisions, and drive alignment across teams.
- Problem Solving: Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially in cross-module or platform-specific scenarios.
- Collaboration: Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing dependencies in distributed environments.
- Communication: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Fan Experiences team at Crunchyroll plays a pivotal role in enhancing and expanding our users' experiences. We partner with platform engineers, designers, and product teams to build immersive, performant applications that delight users across a growing range of devices. Our team thrives on action, innovation, and a shared commitment to raising the bar. We are curious, data-driven, and passionate about continuously improving the way fans experience anime.
WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING AT CRUNCHYROLL
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
COMPENSATION
- Pay Transparency - San Francisco, CA
- Pay Range: $203,400 - $235,000 USD
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
ABOUT OUR VALUES
We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value
- Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
- Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs:
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.
Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.
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Tailor your resume for entertainment infrastructure
Crunchyroll's mechanical engineering work spans physical studio buildouts, server room cooling systems, and hardware deployment. Highlight experience with facilities engineering, thermal management, or production environment equipment rather than general manufacturing roles.
Verify your OPT or CPT eligibility before applying
Crunchyroll sponsors F-1 OPT and CPT, but your program must list mechanical engineering as a qualifying STEM field. Confirm your DSO has updated your SEVP record before your interview, since onboarding timelines at media companies can move faster than expected.
Flag E-3 eligibility early if you hold Australian citizenship
The E-3 visa has a dedicated annual allocation that rarely fills, making it a reliable path for Australian mechanical engineers. Raise your citizenship status in the recruiter screen so Crunchyroll's legal team can prepare the Labor Condition Application with DOL without delaying your offer.
Search Crunchyroll's open roles on Migrate Mate
Crunchyroll posts mechanical engineering roles across multiple locations and teams. Use Migrate Mate to filter specifically for Crunchyroll positions that include visa sponsorship, so you're only spending time on roles where your work authorization situation is already accounted for.
Anticipate H-1B cap timing if you need a new petition
USCIS accepts H-1B cap registrations in March for an October 1 start date. If you're not currently on OPT or another status that bridges the gap, discuss this timeline with your recruiter before accepting an offer so both sides can plan around it.
Request written sponsorship confirmation before accepting
Media and entertainment companies sometimes distinguish between roles they'll sponsor and roles they prefer to fill domestically. Get explicit written confirmation from HR that the specific mechanical engineer position includes visa sponsorship before you resign from a current role or decline other offers.
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Find Mechanical Engineer at Crunchyroll JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does Crunchyroll sponsor H-1B visas for Mechanical Engineers?
Yes, Crunchyroll sponsors H-1B visas for Mechanical Engineer roles. Because H-1B cap-subject petitions are subject to the annual lottery with an October 1 start date, timing matters. If you're already on OPT or another valid status, Crunchyroll can file a cap-subject petition in the spring registration window. Confirm sponsorship in writing during the offer stage so there are no surprises.
How do I apply for Mechanical Engineer jobs at Crunchyroll?
You can browse and apply for Mechanical Engineer positions at Crunchyroll directly through Migrate Mate, which filters for roles that include visa sponsorship. From there, applications typically move through a recruiter screen, technical interviews focused on systems and facilities engineering, and a final loop with the hiring team. Preparing a portfolio of relevant infrastructure or hardware projects strengthens your candidacy significantly.
Which visa types does Crunchyroll sponsor for Mechanical Engineer roles?
Crunchyroll sponsors H-1B, E-3, TN, F-1 OPT, and F-1 CPT for Mechanical Engineer positions. The right visa depends on your nationality and current status. Australian citizens are strong candidates for the E-3 pathway, Canadian and Mexican citizens may qualify for TN, and current students or recent graduates can use OPT or CPT to start work while a longer-term petition is prepared.
What qualifications does Crunchyroll expect for Mechanical Engineer roles?
Crunchyroll's mechanical engineering positions typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in mechanical engineering or a closely related field, which also satisfies the specialty occupation requirement for H-1B and E-3 petitions. Hands-on experience with facilities systems, hardware deployment, or physical production environments is relevant given Crunchyroll's studio and infrastructure footprint in media and entertainment.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a Crunchyroll Mechanical Engineer role?
Timeline depends on the visa type. F-1 OPT can be activated within weeks if your EAD is already approved. E-3 and TN petitions can often be processed within a few weeks through consular or port-of-entry channels. H-1B cap petitions filed in March have an October 1 start date, creating a six-month gap. USCIS premium processing is available for H-1B and can reduce USCIS review to 15 business days.
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