Software Engineer, Figma

AI Product

$149-350k

+Equity. Salary applicable to applicants working from SF/NY Hub only. For remote applicants, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range

Senior level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Figma

Design platform for product teams

Be an early applicant

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Be an early applicant

$149-350k

+Equity. Salary applicable to applicants working from SF/NY Hub only. For remote applicants, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range

Senior level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.

Role

Who you are

  • We are seeking an accomplished and experienced AI Product Engineer who has built generative AI products to join our team and lead our AI efforts from inception to implementation
  • 5+ years of experience, with 1 or more years of developing generative AI products
  • Comfort in prototyping and pathfinding new opportunities that led to successful 0→1 projects
  • Proven experience implementing the full lifecycle of an early-phase AI development, from ideating on which models to use through productionizing and maintaining them
  • Experience in developing deep product and business knowledge to connect abstract modeling and analysis tasks with business value
  • A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers, ex. mentoring/aligning senior engineers across organizations

Desirable

  • Demonstrated expertise in AI indexing, retrieval systems, personalization, and/or natural language processing
  • Proven track record of planning a multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder up to the long-term vision
  • A relevant advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related field

What the job involves

  • As Figma’s customer base continues to expand and diversify, and new technological advancements in AI and generative design emerge, the opportunity for AI experience engineering is greater than ever
  • You’ll collaborate closely with a cutting edge AI Research team and your work will help raise the ceiling of what’s possible for designers and lower the floor of who can design
  • Lead the development of early-phase AI systems to enhance user experience and develop systems to measure and improve AI performance and relevance
  • Direct the future of AI at Figma in collaboration with cross-functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and data scientists
  • Break down open-ended AI problems into engineering strategies utilizing machine learning, data analysis, and experimental design
  • Provide mentorship and promote best practices in data and AI while cultivating a collaborative and inclusive team culture
  • Contribute to the growth of the team by improving the hiring process and recruiting outstanding AI talent

Our take

Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.

Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.

Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

97% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2024

$415.7m

SERIES F

Jan 2022

$0.5m

SERIES E

Total funding: $749.1m

Company benefits

  • Equity
  • Health, Dental, & Vision
  • Retirement with company contribution
  • Parental leave & fertility support
  • Mental health and wellness benefits
  • Generous PTO
  • Company recharge days
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Work from home stipend
  • Cell phone reimbursement

Company values

  • Build community
  • Run with it
  • Love your craft
  • Grow as you go

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.

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