Senior Design Engineer, Design Operations: AI-Powered Design Platform

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential enterprise software organization in their search for a Senior Design Engineer to lead the development of their AI-powered design operations platform. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of design, engineering, and product, where you'll build the internal tooling, automation, and infrastructure that enables a design organization to move fast while maintaining consistency and quality.

In this role, you will:

• Design and build internal tools and automations with strong UX using TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, and APIs, ensuring the design team's tooling is genuinely usable
• Engineer and maintain agent pipelines, including MCP servers, context pipelines, and integrations that connect the design system to AI coding agents
• Automate governance through CI checks, release automation, and policy enforcement that function as guardrails in the pipeline
• Own and govern the AI tool stack by evaluating, integrating, and rolling out tools while partnering with security and legal on data and IP review
• Build telemetry and dashboards to measure design-system adoption, AI-tool usage, cycle time, and quality metrics
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to evolve the design system and surrounding workflows
• Develop prompt and template infrastructure to ensure consistent AI-assisted quality across the organization
• Set tooling and operations standards, lead platform initiatives, and mentor team members

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 5–8 years of experience in design engineering, front-end development, design-systems tooling, or platform/internal-tools engineering with genuine design and UX sensibility
• Strong UX instincts with the ability to design usable tools and translate ambiguous needs into thoughtful solutions
• Solid foundation in HTML/CSS and front-end craft
• Strong engineering skills, comfortable building tools and automations in TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python
• Experience working with APIs, CI/CD, and integrations
• Working knowledge of Figma at an organizational level, including its plugin and REST APIs
• Proven track record of measurably improving team workflows through tooling and automation
• Hands-on fluency with AI tooling and a thoughtful approach to governing its use
• Strong product mindset with bias toward ownership and senior-level communication skills

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience building or operating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers or similar AI integration infrastructure
• Experience implementing AI tool governance at organizational scale (access, licensing, security/IP review, usage policy)
• Familiarity with design tokens and Code Connect, including Angular/TypeScript and CSS custom properties
• Experience building dashboards and telemetry for tooling adoption and impact measurement
• Background supporting design in complex B2B, enterprise, or data-heavy environments

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your application and schedule an initial screening call to understand your experience and career goals. We'll prepare you thoroughly before submitting your profile to our client. Once submitted, we'll coordinate all interview scheduling and provide guidance throughout the process.

Please apply exclusively through Get A Job.ai and do not contact the client directly. Our recruiters are your advocates throughout this process.

This is a senior role based in Munich, where you'll own major areas of the tooling platform with full autonomy, set standards that others rely on, lead initiatives, and mentor team members. The organization values bringing AI into workflows thoughtfully—making work faster and safer without compromising quality or trust.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive for the Munich market and seniority level.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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