Senior Design Engineer: AI-Driven Design Systems

StepStone Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

29 days holiday

Private medical and dental

Pension matching 4-5%

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance

Cycle to work

Hybrid work model

Dog-friendly office

Zusammenfassung

The Stepstone Group is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join our Design Engineering function. You will be a design systems expert, building robust, scalable components and patterns, and shaping the AI prototyping infrastructure.

Collaborate with front-end engineers, contribute to production-ready design system, and help embed AI into daily workflows. This role combines design craft with engineering and a strong focus on accessibility and quality.

Qualifikationen

• Design Systems Craft: Proven track record shipping high-quality components and patterns, with exceptional attention to interaction, visual design, motion, accessibility, and documentation. This is a design role first.
• T-Shaped Technical Skill: Broad design literacy plus deep capability in component engineering, tokens/design infrastructure, or prototyping, and comfortable working in code alongside front-end engineers.
• AI-Forward Mindset: Actively applies AI to design system and prototyping work, and helps others do the same.
• Accessibility Advocate: Deep knowledge of accessibility standards and a commitment to an inclusive, usable system.
• Systems Thinker and Collaborator: Balances consistency with flexibility as the system scales, builds strong partnerships across design and engineering, and clearly explains decisions to both audiences.

Aufgaben

• Contribute to the design of robust, scalable, accessible components and patterns, with clear visual logic, elegant interaction states, and exceptional craft.
• Build reusable, well-tested components that are easy for other designers and engineers to adopt and integrate.
• Build out and maintain our AI prototyping infrastructure (repos, hosting, naming and discoverability, access) so teams can create coded, data-connected prototypes and test ideas faster.
• Help embed AI into how the design team works day to day: component creation, documentation, design-to-code handoff, and beyond.
• Raise the quality bar for shipped UI through design QA, accessibility and performance standards.

Kenntnisse

Design systems craft

T-shaped technical skill

AI-forward mindset

Accessibility advocate

Systems thinker & collaborator

Jobbeschreibung

The Stepstone Group is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join our Design Engineering function. You will be a design systems expert, building robust, scalable components and patterns, and shaping the AI prototyping infrastructure.

Collaborate with front-end engineers, contribute to production-ready design system, and help embed AI into daily workflows. This role combines design craft with engineering and a strong focus on accessibility and quality.