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full-timeManager, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure
Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Figma is a design and collaboration platform that enables teams to brainstorm, prototype, and translate designs into code. The AI Infrastructure team is responsible for developing the foundational systems that power the company's AI-driven features, including Figma Make and Figma Agent. As a Manager for this team, you will lead engineers in building and maintaining critical production services such as AI gateways, metering systems, and trace infrastructure. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve defining technical strategy, managing project execution, and hiring and mentoring senior and staff-level engineers. You will be expected to remain hands-on, engaging with complex technical decisions to ensure the reliability and scalability of the platform. This role is well-suited for an experienced engineering leader with a background in production AI systems who is comfortable navigating fast-moving environments. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record of scaling high-performing teams and a deep interest in building infrastructure that supports cutting-edge machine learning models and agent-based tooling.
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! The AI Infrastructure team builds the foundational inference systems that sit at the core of Figma’s AI products. Our team is responsible for ensuring products like Figma Make and Figma Agent are highly reliable, easily observable, and can seamlessly leverage the latest cutting-edge models. Our team owns critical production services like our AI gateway, metering systems, and trace infrastructure, as well as our strategy for hosting first-party models. This role is an opportunity to join a rapidly-growing team at the ground floor and directly contribute to our core AI platform. We’re looking for a hands-on engineering leader to support & grow our team, define & execute on our technical strategy, and collaborate with teams across engineering to build best-in-class AI features. 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: Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure for Figma’s AI products. Partner with engineering and product leaders from across Figma to define the team’s technical strategy and manage the day-to-day project execution. Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers to scale the team. Roll up your sleeves to engage deeply with technical details and decisions as needed in order to help the team deliver on a robust AI platform with urgency. Build an inclusive team and culture through thoughtful team-building and hiring practices. We’d love to hear from you if you have: 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing, fast-moving teams, ideally in the AI space. 8+ years of total engineering experience, ideally reaching a staff engineering level as an individual contributor. Experience working on production AI systems. A proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and growing experienced AI engineering leads. Demonstrated experience learning new AI technologies quickly building technical depth in a new domain. Experience building and scaling engineering teams and org structure as they grow. While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: Experience building AI agents, agent harnesses/loops, or LLM/agent tooling platforms. Experience building high-scale production infrastructure (e.g., traffic/inference systems, metering, anti-abuse and billing systems). A background in adjacent platform domains, like recommendation systems or networking. 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. Pay Transparency Disclosure Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, 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. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law. Annual Base Salary Range: $258,000 — $376,000 USD At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedica
| Role | Manager, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure |
|---|---|
| Company | Figma |
| Location | San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-19 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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