Software Engineer, AI Platforms

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Building evaluation frameworks for design generation quality that are used across every Figma AI feature.
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.

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, abstractions, and systems that support AI features across Figma.
By investing in strong foundations, we’re able to deliver new capabilities and accelerate product development for our most critical AI investments.
We’re looking for strong infrastructure & platform engineers to partner with AI teams across the company to uplevel our technical quality, performance, reliability, and core capabilities.
Iterating on the shared sandbox and agent platforms that power Figma Make and Figma Agent to bring new capabilities to our coding agents.
Making relevant context from throughout the Figma ecosystem available to agents in order to improve quality.
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.

5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in backend or infrastructure engineering. 3+ years of

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

If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com .

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!
Here are just a few of the areas you’d be able to work on:
Making our MCP server faster, more reliable, and easier for internal & external engineers alike to develop on.
Creating the core infrastructure for how we store prompt histories, generated code, and agent traces across products.
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
Experience evolving large-scale, shared developer platforms to improve reliability and developer velocity.