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.

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

We're hiring across several different teams

Modeling Platform
The Modeling Platform team develops infrastructure for training, evaluating, deploying, and serving the AI models used across Figma. Modeling Platform engineers partner with our AI Research team to accelerate the end-to-end model development lifecycle.

Agent Platform
The Agent Platform team builds the frameworks and systems powering agentic AI features throughout Figma's products. Agent Platform engineers 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.

Search & Recommendations
The Search & Recommendations team builds our platform for context-gathering for agents, surfacing content across the Figma ecosystem (text, design systems, and more) by combining traditional search, recommendation, and information retrieval infrastructure with modern agentic search capabilities.

Extensibility
The Extensibility team is responsible for our plugin, widget, and REST APIs that enable developers to build their own Figma integrations. Extensibility engineers also partner with product teams to develop our recently-launched MCP offerings and server platforms that integrate Figma into the wider AI ecosystem.

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 Platforms teams, you'll play a critical role in developing cutting-edge AI models and new product functionality.

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

What you'll do

• 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.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.

We'd love to hear from you if you have

• 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.
• Experience evolving large-scale, shared developer platforms.
• A track record of leading technical strategy and complex, multi-team projects.

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