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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** Figma, Inc. - **Location:** Cobalt, MO, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $153,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Application Integration Architecture, System Configuration, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Screen Reader, Toolchain, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Figma, Codebase, Software Coding - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1815969/ ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience shipping production software end-to-end, including meaningful experience working directly with customers or partner teams * Strong engineering fundamentals and adaptability, with the ability to quickly navigate unfamiliar codebases, languages, and technical environments to deliver production-ready solutions * Experience with design systems and design-to-code workflows, including tokens and component libraries, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in this space * Excellent customer-facing communication and technical partnership skills, with the ability to build trust with senior engineers and translate customer needs into actionable product and engineering solutions * Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python, with hands-on experience integrating APIs and SDKs, troubleshooting toolchains and CI environments, and navigating enterprise requirements such as SSO, security reviews, access controls, data residency, and compliance frameworks, * Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces, with the ability to take end-to-end ownership and drive solutions independently * Strong product mindset, with a track record of identifying patterns from customer engagements and translating field learnings into clear, actionable product feedback * Background in forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, developer experience, or a similar customer-facing technical role * Familiarity with developer tools, design-to-code workflows, or AI/LLM products, including tools such as Code Connect, Storybook, Style Dictionary, or comparable technologies * Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Experience, Solutions Architecture, or related teams to deliver complex enterprise engagements, 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. ## Description * Make an enterprise design system agent-ready so AI tools generate faithful, on-system code: fix tokens, naming, and guidelines, wire up Code Connect, and run evals * Get Make Local, Code Layers, and our newest products working in a customer's real environment, writing code, config, agent skills, and guideline files against their systems and ours * Run technical discovery: understand a customer's dev environment, toolchain, and constraints, then scope the fastest credible path to value, in addition to setting the customer up for long term success * Debug hard, unfamiliar integration problems (git workflows, CI, dev-environment setup, non-standard stacks) * Build LLM-powered workflows: MCP setup, agent skills, and prompt engineering tuned to each customer's context * Turn one-off solutions into reusable playbooks and product feedback, so patterns you solve once become self-serve or shipped product * Bring field friction back to Figma's Product and Engineering orgs, influence what gets built next, and often build it, * 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. 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