Software Engineer, AI Platforms

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!

Our AI Platform teams build the core frameworks and systems that support AI features across Figma, ranging from infrastructure for training cutting‑edge models to platforms for developing agentic product functionality.

We’re looking for engineers with a background in platform engineering or machine learning to strengthen our foundational AI systems and frameworks. As a member of our AI Platform teams, you’ll play a critical role in developing cutting‑edge AI models and new product functionality, while improving the technical quality, performance, and reliability of our AI features. You’ll work alongside developers across the company and combine industry best practices with a first‑principle approach to design and build the platforms that power Figma’s design and collaboration products.

We’re hiring across several teams:

• Modeling Platform: The Modeling Platform team develops infrastructure for training, evaluating, deploying, and serving the AI models used across Figma. Engineers on this team partner with our AI Research team to accelerate the end‑to‑end model development lifecycle, from experimentation to production.
• Agent Platform: The Agent Platform team builds the frameworks and systems powering agentic AI features throughout Figma’s products. Engineers on this team partner with our product and infrastructure teams to unlock new AI capabilities, improve the development velocity of AI engineers, and ensure all of our AI features are reliable, performant, and high‑quality.
• Extensibility: The Extensibility team is responsible for our plugin, widget, and REST APIs that enable developers to build their own Figma integrations. Engineers on this team also partner with our product teams to develop our recently‑launched MCP offerings and server platforms that integrate Figma into the wider AI ecosystem.

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

• 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 across AI initiatives.
• 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.

• 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 with Type Script, 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.

• Prior experience building AI infrastructure at scale, whether for model training or serving platforms.
• Experience improving large‑scale, shared developer platforms to enhance reliability and developer velocity.
• A proven track record of leading technical strategy and delivering 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.

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