Space Design Expert

Li Auto is looking for a Space Design Expert to join its onsite team in Munich, DE. This full-time role lives in the company’s interior space studio, a leading unit focused on visionary, immersive cabin experiences. The team is known for pushing the boundaries of interior design and collaborating across Li Auto’s Beijing and Shanghai development hubs to shape tomorrow’s vehicles. Ideal candidates are seasoned designers who love leading cross-functional work and turning bold ideas into tangible products.

The interior space group centers on crafting experiences that resonate with families while staying true to the Li Auto brand. The role sits at the crossroads of concept, model-making, and production, offering a hands-on path from sketches to manufacturing releases. You’ll team up with the Smart Space and engineering squads to deliver forward-thinking concepts and help establish a design culture that harmonizes with colleagues in Beijing and Shanghai. At its core, the position aims to help define the future DNA of Li Auto’s products, spotting trends in automotive spaces and weaving them into the brand’s future.

Shaping the Li Auto cabin experience

In practice, you’ll steer the development of the vehicle’s interior space with a mission to create family-oriented experiences that align with the brand identity. You’ll guide the design process from the earliest sketches through to models and, ultimately, to releases for tooling and manufacturing. Collaboration is a cornerstone, as you’ll work with the Smart Space and engineering teams to push innovative, forward-looking products. You’ll also help cultivate a design taste and working culture that sits in step with Li Auto’s teams in Beijing and Shanghai. The overarching goal is to influence the future DNA of Li Auto products and keep the company at the vanguard of technology for users.

What you’ll bring to Li Auto's interior studio

Here’s what the team is seeking, reworded from the listed requirements:

• Bachelor degree or higher in industrial design or transportation design
• More than ten years of interior design experience, with strong sketching, rendering, and presentation skills
• Solid grounding in interior car design from concept sketch through production, with the ability to lead a project from first sketch to final tooling release
• Proficiency with sketching and rendering tools and a working knowledge of modelling software
• Fluent English communication and writing skills, plus proven ability to coordinate and collaborate within a team
• Excellent negotiation and problem-solving abilities
• Self-motivated with a continuous learning mindset
• Proactive and creatively driven
• Strong time management and the ability to work well under pressure
• Self-confident, goal-driven and oriented toward delivering results

Compensation and practical details

The position is full-time and onsite in Munich, DE. No further details about salary, travel, work authorization, licenses or physical demands are provided in this listing beyond the location and arrangement.

Guidance for applicants seeking the Space Design Expert role

Put your strongest materials up front by leading with your decade-plus experience in interior design for vehicles and your credentials in industrial or transportation design

Show concrete proof of the must-have skills in your portfolio, especially projects that moved from initial sketches to tooling releases, and highlight any collaboration with cross-functional teams, including teams in Beijing and Shanghai or the Smart Space group

Be prepared to discuss how you shape a design language that fits a brand identity and how you’ve built a design culture across different locations, not just in one studio

Ask how the Smart Space and engineering teams collaborate to deliver forward-thinking interiors and how this role will influence Li Auto’s future product DNA