Software Engineer - AI Platforms
Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Software engineering
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Salary
- USD 153,000 – 376,000 / year
Builds and maintains AI infrastructure at Figma, including agent systems, search tools, and evaluation frameworks that power AI features like Figma Make and Design Agent.
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. 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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
AI Platform teams build the core frameworks, abstractions, and systems that support AI features across Figma. We create new capabilities that AI product teams can build on, while collaborating with teams from around the company to improve our performance, reliability, and technical quality. We’re looking for strong infrastructure and platform-minded engineers to contribute to our agent infrastructure, context retrieval & ranking platform, and core AI services, in order to accelerate our most critical company-wide AI initiatives.
Here are just a few areas our platform teams work on:
- Evals for design: Building evaluation frameworks for design generation quality that are used across every Figma AI feature.
- Agentic search: Providing relevant context from throughout the Figma ecosystem to agents via search tools, in order to improve agent quality.
- Figma MCP: Making our MCP server faster, more reliable, and easier for internal & external engineers alike to develop on.
- Agent infrastructure: Iterating on the sandboxes, harnesses, and tools leveraged by the agents that power Figma Make and the Figma Design Agent.
- Preview & publishing platforms: Creating the shared platforms for building, previewing, and publishing code written by agents via Figma Make.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- 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.
- 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.
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in backend or infrastructure engineering.
- 3+ years of experience in one or more of: AI, search infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, or Ruby.
- Strong system design skills and a track record of architecting resilient production systems.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience collaborating across teams and mentoring others.
While not required, It’s an added plus if you also have:
- Prior experience in building AI infrastructure at scale, whether that be model training or serving platforms.
- Experience evolving large-scale, shared developer platforms to improve reliability and developer velocity.
- A proven track record of leading technical strategy and complex, multi-team projects.
At Figma, one of our values is Grow As You Go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [email protected]. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
Application limits: To help candidates focus on the opportunities most relevant to their skills and experience, Figma limits the number and frequency of applications. These limits apply to all roles:
- Candidates may submit up to 5 applications during any rolling 30-day period.
- Candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days of receiving a rejection.
Once the applicable days has passed, candidates are welcome to apply again.