engineering
Posted Apr 20Software Engineer, AI Platforms
at Figma
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Support end-to-end AI feature development by designing, building, and maintaining systems that are scalable, reliable, and performant.
- Collaborate with product, research, and infrastructure engineers working across AI.
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.
Requirements
- Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
- Our AI Platform teams build the core frameworks and systems that support AI features across Figma, from infrastructure for training cutting-edge models to platforms for writing agentic product functionality.
- The Modeling Platform team develops infrastructure for training, evaluating, deploying, and serving the AI models used across Figma.
- Modeling Platform engineers partner with our AI Research team to accelerate the end-to-end model development lifecycle, from experimentation to production. Agent Platform
- The Agent Platform team builds the frameworks and systems powering agentic AI features throughout Figma’s products.
- Agent Platform engineers partner with our product and infrastructure teams to unlock new AI capabilities, improve the development velocity of AI engineers, and ensure all of our AI features are reliable, performant, and high-quality.
- The Search & Recommendations team builds our platform for context-gathering for agents, surfacing content across the Figma ecosystem (text, design systems, and more) by combining traditional search, recommendation, and information retrieval infrastructure with modern agentic search capabilities.
- Search and Recommendations engineers partner with product teams across our AI organization to develop highly reliable and performant systems that improve AI quality. Make Platform
- The Extensibility team is responsible for our plugin, widget, and REST APIs that enable developers to build their own Figma integrations.
- Extensibility engineers also partner with our product teams to develop our recently-launched MCP offerings and server platforms that integrate Figma into the wider AI ecosystem.
- We’re looking for engineers with a background in platform engineering or machine learning to strengthen our foundational AI systems & frameworks.
- As a member of our AI Platforms teams, you’ll play a critical role in developing cutting-edge AI models and new product functionality, while also upleveling the technical quality, performance, and reliability of our AI features.
- You’ll work alongside developers across the company, and combine industry best practices with a first-principle approach to design and build the platforms that power Figma’s design and collaboration products.
- experience in one or more of: AI, search infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, or Ruby.
- experience collaborating across teams and mentoring others.
- experience in building AI infrastructure at scale, whether that be model training or serving platforms. •
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Experience
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in backend or infrastructure engineering. 3+ years of
Benefits
- If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
- Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual
- For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range.
- Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales
- Figma’s compensation and
- Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000 — $376,000 USD
Contact
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com .
Additional details
- Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
- If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
- We’re hiring across several different teams: Modeling Platform
- The Make Platform team builds systems that power a new way of creating and shipping software, where code, tooling, and runtime environments come together seamlessly.
- This includes standing up and managing sandboxed environments that can reliably run real applications, designing flexible pipelines that build and preview projects across a wide range of application frameworks, and integrating deeply with codebases to keep development state consistent as it evolves.
- The work spans distributed systems, developer infrastructure, and product-facing reliability challenges, with a focus on making complex workflows feel fast, intuitive, and dependable. Extensibility
- This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- Help shape our platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices throughout the organization.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack.
- While not required, It’s an added plus if you also have: Prior