AI Engineer, Internal Tools

About the Position

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!

Figma employees are among the most AI-active in the industry, and our Internal AI team, part of FTS (our Business Technology org), helps turn that energy into meaningful impact by making it easier for every Figmate, from Sales and Support to Finance, People, and Legal, to safely adopt AI and use it to improve how they work.

We’re a small, high-leverage team organized around three pillars: Platform & Tooling, Infrastructure & Hosting, and Applied AI Builds, and this role is a key member of the Applied AI Builds pillar.

As an AI Engineer, Internal Tools, you’ll work directly with teams across Figma to identify high-value AI opportunities and take them to production, moving from understanding a business workflow, to rapidly prototyping an approach, to evaluating it and integrating it with the systems and data needed to make it useful in the real world.

This isn’t a role focused only on building AI demos: you’ll own solutions through production, help determine where AI adds value and where traditional rules-based software is the right choice, and shape how agents can safely take actions across enterprise systems. As common patterns emerge, you’ll partner with our Platform & Tooling and Infrastructure teams to build reusable capabilities that make future AI builds faster and safer.

This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with teams across GTM, Finance, People, Legal, Support, and other business functions to understand workflows and identify high-value opportunities for AI
• Design, build, and productionize AI agents, assistants, and workflow automations that solve real business problems using LLMs, tool calling, RAG, structured outputs, agent frameworks, MCP, APIs, and enterprise data
• Integrate AI applications with enterprise systems and data sources across GTM, Finance, People, Support, and internal APIs
• Build evaluations and feedback loops to measure accuracy, reliability, and business impact before and after AI solutions reach production
• Design deterministic guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, and approval patterns for workflows where AI systems take business-critical actions
• Build production-ready systems with strong observability, failure handling, security, authentication, authorization, and auditability
• Identify reusable patterns across individual AI projects and build them out as shared components and capabilities in partnership with our Internal AI platform teams
• Help define how Figma approaches Applied AI engineering and scales AI adoption across the company

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, integrations, backend systems, or AI-powered products
• Hands-on experience building applications with LLMs, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, schema-constrained outputs, or evaluation frameworks
• Experience taking an AI application or workflow beyond a prototype and operating it in a production environment
• Strong API, integration, and system design fundamentals, with experience connecting applications across multiple systems and data sources and strong engineering judgment about when to apply AI and when a rules-based approach is the right choice, and experience designing reliable production systems with appropriate observability, failure handling, authentication, authorization, and security controls
• Experience working directly with non-engineering stakeholders to understand ambiguous business problems and translate them into technical solutions and ability to move quickly from discovery to prototype while understanding what is required to safely and reliably productionize a solution

Nice to Have

• A background building internal AI applications or working in an Applied AI, Forward Deployed Engineering, or AI Solutions Engineering role
• Experience with MCP, agent orchestration frameworks, and enterprise tool-calling patterns
• Knowledge of AWS Bedrock, AgentCore, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar AI platforms
• Experience integrating enterprise systems such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Workday, NetSuite, Greenhouse, or Slack
• Knowledge of AI evaluations, observability, prompt/version management, and human-in-the-loop systems
• Experience implementing enterprise identity and access patterns such as Okta, SSO, OAuth, and secure service-to-service authentication, within Security, Privacy, SOX/ITGC, or other enterprise governance requirements

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $153,000 - $296,000 USD
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package 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
• Paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts
• Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles

About the Company

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.

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].