Senior Design Engineer, Design Operations: AI-Powered Design Platform
Description
Celonis is hiring a Senior Design Engineer for its Design Operations team in Munich, sitting at the intersection of design, engineering, and product. The role builds internal tools, automation, and agent-pipeline infrastructure that makes Celonis's design system agent-ready, including standing up MCP servers and context pipelines that connect the design system to AI coding agents such as Cursor and Claude Code. It also covers governance-as-code (CI checks, release automation), ownership of the AI tool stack, and telemetry/dashboards on design-system and AI-tool adoption. Candidates need around 5-8 years across design engineering, front-end, or platform/internal-tools engineering with genuine UX sensibility, plus strong TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python skills and working knowledge of the Figma plugin/REST APIs.
Requirements
- Around 5-8 years across design engineering, front-end, design-systems tooling, or platform/internal-tools engineering, with genuine design/UX sensibility, not engineering-only
- Good UX instincts, able to design a usable tool 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 in TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python, working with APIs, CI/CD, and integrations
- Solid working knowledge of Figma at an organizational level and its plugin/REST APIs
- A 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 point of view on governing it at work
- A strong product mindset and bias toward ownership, plus the communication and leadership of a senior IC
Experience Level
InternEntry LevelMid-levelSeniorLeadExecutive
Benefits
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants from day one
24 weeks fully paid parental leave for primary carers, 12 weeks for supporting carers
Unlimited PTO in applicable regions and generous PTO globally
Flexible hybrid work model
70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and a dedicated learning platform
Subsidized Wellhub memberships and mental health counseling
Paid Impact Days for volunteering
📍 Life in Munich
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Population
1.6M
⭐
Quality of Life
9.0
🇬🇧
English Friendly
8.0
💻
Tech Scene
9.0
🌍
International
8.0
🚇
Public Transport
9.0
🚴
Bikeability
8.0
🌬️
Air Quality
7.0
🌳
Green Spaces
8.0
🚗
Car Free
6.0
ℹ️
About Munich
- •Tech hub with strong startup ecosystem
- •Excellent public services
- •Close to Alps
🌤️
Climate
- •Continental climate
- •Cold winters with snow
- •Warm summers
- •Close to Alps
❄️Jan: 0°C☀️Jul: 19°C📅Avg: 9°C
☀️1900 sunshine hours/year
🛡️
Safety
- •Safest major city in Germany
- •Very low violent crime
- •Occasional pickpocketing
Overall:9.0
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Healthcare
- •World-class hospitals
- •Short wait times
- •Comprehensive coverage
Quality: 10.0Access: 9.0
🎭
Culture
- •Rich arts scene
- •World-famous museums
- •Strong music tradition
🎉
Nightlife
- •Vibrant beer gardens
- •Clubs
- •Cultural events
🏞️
Recreation
- •Parks
- •English Garden
- •Alps nearby
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Cost of Living
- •Most expensive city in Germany
- •High salaries compensate somewhat
🏠 Rent (1BR center):€1650
⚡ Utilities:€250
🛒 Groceries:€350
🍽️ Dining out:€22
Celonis is the leader in process mining technology, helping enterprises uncover and fix inefficiencies in their business processes using AI-driven insights over SAP, Salesforce, and other system data.
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The default for anyone single, divorced or widowed.
Only changes the church tax rate — 8% in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, 9% everywhere else.
Childless employees over 23 pay a higher Pflegeversicherung (care insurance) rate.