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Celonis is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to build and operate the internal platform that powers the company's design operations at enterprise scale. This role sits at the intersection of design, engineering, and product, focusing on tooling, automation, and AI-agent infrastructure that enables designers to move fast while maintaining consistency and quality.
You will design and build internal tools with strong UX that the design organization actually uses daily. This includes engineering the agent pipeline—standing up and maintaining MCP servers, context pipelines, and integrations that connect the design system to AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Copilot). You'll automate governance through CI checks, release automation, and policy enforcement, ensuring standards are guardrails in the pipeline rather than documentation.
Key responsibilities include owning and governing the AI tool stack by evaluating, integrating, licensing, and rolling out tools while partnering with security and legal on data, IP review, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. You'll instrument and report on impact by building telemetry and dashboards for design-system adoption, AI-tool usage, cycle time, and quality metrics. You'll collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to evolve the design system and its workflows, build prompt and template infrastructure for consistent AI-assisted quality, and set tooling standards while mentoring designers and engineers across the practice.
This is a senior, hands-on role with full autonomy over major areas of the tooling and platform. You'll design and build with a high bar, set standards others rely on, lead initiatives, and mentor team members.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5–8 years of experience in design engineering, front-end development, design-systems tooling, or platform/internal-tools engineering, with genuine design/UX sensibility
- Good UX instincts: ability to design usable tools and translate ambiguous needs into thoughtful solutions, with a foundation in HTML/CSS and front-end craft
- Strong engineering skills: comfortable building real tools and automations using TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python, working with APIs, CI/CD, and integrations
- Solid working knowledge of Figma at an organizational level, including plugin and REST APIs
- Track record of measurably improving how a design or product team works through tooling and automation
- Hands-on fluency with AI tooling and a thoughtful, responsible perspective on governing it in the workplace
- Strong product mindset with bias toward ownership, plus communication and leadership skills of a senior individual contributor
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience building or operating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers or similar AI integration infrastructure
- Experience standing up AI tool governance (access, licensing, security/IP review, usage policy) at organizational scale
- 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
