About the Role
Quantium is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to join their Design System Engineering (DSE) team in Sydney. This multidisciplinary team combines front-end engineering and UX expertise to help product teams create fast, accessible, and consistently branded user interfaces. This role offers a unique opportunity to help define the future of design systems as AI agents contribute more production code, influencing interface creation across a broad product portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Evolve the design system, including the shared component library, front-end standards, and supporting tools.
- Define practical standards for consistency, accessibility, and brand expression as the product portfolio grows.
- Improve AI-generated interfaces by translating design and engineering intent into standards that automated pipelines can validate.
- Create clear component documentation and usage rules for both engineers and coding agents.
- Design and build solutions, balancing immediate product needs with the long-term health of the system.
- Grow capability across the team by pairing with UX practitioners and helping engineers strengthen their design systems practice.
Requirements
- Meaningful contribution to a centralized design system, shared component library, or UI framework.
- Strong hands-on experience with React and component-based architecture.
- Ability to design, build, and review production-quality solutions.
- Understanding of UX methods, accessibility, and design intent.
- Effective collaboration with experienced designers.
- Experience using tools like Claude Code or equivalent for AI-assisted development.
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated code beyond functionality, considering component choices, design-token usage, consistency, and accessibility.
- Systems thinking, with an interest in creating reusable foundations.
- Ability to explain and negotiate technical standards with engineers and designers.
- Experience operating at the intersection of engineering and UX.
- Curiosity about agentic workflows.
- Confidence to help shape an emerging practice.
Skills
- React
- Component-based architecture
- Design systems
- UI frameworks
- UX methods
- Accessibility
- AI-assisted development
- Systems thinking
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive remuneration
- Attractive annual bonus scheme
- Equity programs for Executives
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Hybrid office schedule (3 days in office)
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Analytics and Engineering Community support
About the Company
- Quantium is a world leader in data science and artificial intelligence, established in Australia in 2002.
- Quantium is a global team of over 1,200 people across 14 locations.
- Quantium offers a unique blend of capabilities across product and consulting services.
- Quantium partners with the world's largest corporations to unlock value from data and analytics.
- Quantium's mission is to forge a better, more intelligent world.
