Software Engineer - AI Platforms

About the Position

Software Engineer - AI Platforms

San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

Nice to 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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $153,000-$376,000 USD
• 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.
• Equity options for employees.
• Flexible PTO and paid sick leave.
• Company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and 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].

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