engineering
Posted Apr 22Software Engineer, Code Platform
at Figma
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
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Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve code ↔ design translation pipelines, including AI-powered and agentic workflows
- Build and iterate on LLM integrations that power code generation, design interpretation, and agentic feature surfaces
- Design evaluation frameworks for AI-generated code outputs quality, correctness, and format fidelity
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks and long-running tasks that impact product SLAs
- Improve correctness, reconciliation, and fidelity across complex design system and layout edge cases
- Build scalable serialization pipelines, internal APIs, and platform utilities
- Improve observability and ownership of key metrics (latency, success rate, correctness)
- Support and drive architectural direction and long-term platform strategy for a translation surface
- Mentor engineers and shape the long-term team structure
- Experience building design systems or component libraries
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.
- Figma is a critical part of modern product development, where design and code are core primitives in how builders create, iterate, and ship products.
- Figma's Code Platform team builds the foundational infrastructure that enables seamless translation between design, code, and AI-powered creation.
- From LLM-powered code generation to agentic design-to-code workflows, we're integrating AI deeply into how developers
- experience Figma. Our work powers products such as Make, Prompt to Edit, MCP, and other Figma surfaces.
- As AI becomes central to how products are built in the industry, Code Platform sits at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI enabling the next generation of creation tools.
- You'll build AI forward systems that translate between structured design models, and LLM-friendly representations, and balancing deterministic solutions with AI generated solutions across latency and correctness across Figma.
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend fundamentals Deep
- experience with declarative UI systems (React, JSX, or similar)
- Familiarity with ASTs, code transformation, or compilation concepts •
- Experience building features that integrate LLMs or AI models into a product not just using AI tools, but shipping with them •
- Experience with prompt engineering, RAG patterns, or model evaluation •
- Experience with code generation models or AST-level code manipulation
- Prior work on agentic workflows or multi-step LLM pipelines •
- Experience with MCP, tool-use APIs, or AI developer ecosystems •
- experience (APIs, observability, SLAs)
- Rendering, layout, or graphics pipeline knowledge
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, especially in web, platform, or infrastructure engineering
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!
- Our mission is to power the interoperability of design ↔ code so it can be seamless and magical for our customers, while remaining ergonomic, scalable, and extendable for the company.
- We're hiring engineers to join Code Platform to work on our core code translation infrastructure.
- This role will focus primarily on deep technical execution, and depending on level and experience, may also include technical leadership
- responsibilities such as architectural ownership, mentoring, and driving multi-quarter initiatives.
- This is a rare opportunity to improve and evolve one of the most strategically important abstractions in the company.
- Partner with product leads to define long term product enablement and build foundational infra
- Experience debugging performance, rendering, or pipeline latency issues •
- Experience building complex, cross-team platforms with multiple stakeholder groups