Figma

Forward Deployed Engineer

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San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$153k - $376k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with strategic enterprise customers to solve technical adoption challenges across codebases, design systems, developer environments, and workflows.
  • Make enterprise design systems agent-ready by fixing tokens, naming, guidelines, Code Connect integrations, and evaluations.
  • Configure Figma products in customer environments by writing code, configuration, agent skills, and guideline files.
  • Conduct technical discovery, scope paths to value, and debug unfamiliar integrations involving Git workflows, CI, developer environments, and non-standard stacks.
  • Build LLM-powered workflows using MCP setup, agent skills, and context-specific prompt engineering.
  • Convert one-off customer solutions into reusable playbooks, self-service capabilities, product feedback, and shipped product improvements.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Experience, Solutions Architecture, and customer engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience shipping production software end-to-end, including meaningful direct work with customers or partner teams.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases, languages, and technical environments to deliver production-ready solutions.
  • Experience with design systems and design-to-code workflows, including tokens and component libraries, or the ability to ramp quickly in this area.
  • Strong customer-facing communication and technical partnership skills with senior engineers.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python and hands-on experience integrating APIs and SDKs, troubleshooting toolchains and CI environments, and handling enterprise requirements such as SSO, security reviews, access controls, data residency, and compliance frameworks.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, take end-to-end ownership, identify patterns from customer engagements, and translate field learnings into product feedback.
  • Experience in forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, developer experience, or a similar customer-facing technical role is preferred.
  • Familiarity with developer tools, design-to-code workflows, AI/LLM products, Code Connect, Storybook, Style Dictionary, or comparable technologies is preferred.
  • Experience partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Experience, Solutions Architecture, or related teams is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time role available from one of Figma’s U.S. hubs or remotely within the United States.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave; reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off.
  • Paid sick leave, holidays, flexible PTO for eligible exempt employees, and other legally required leave benefits.
  • Potential company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.
  • Equity, an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles, and other benefits subject to applicable plan terms.
  • In-person onboarding is required if hired, and cameras must remain on during video interviews.

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