Software Engineer, AI Platforms

Figma, Inc.
United States
17 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
1 year minimum
Compensation
$153,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Software Debugging Python (Programming Language) Ruby Screen Reader Software Engineering TypeScript AI Infrastructure Backend AI Platforms

Job description

  • 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., * 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.

Requirements

  • 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., 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.

Benefits & conditions

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. Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000-$376,000 USD

About the company

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.

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