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! 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, 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, from experimentation to production. 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. Search and Recommendations engineers partner with product teams across our AI organization to develop highly reliable and performant systems that improve AI quality. 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 our 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 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, while also upleveling 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. 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 at Figma: 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. We'd love to hear from you if you have: 5+ years of Software Engine ... (truncated, view full listing at source)