over 1 year ago
Base Salary
$149k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development of early-phase AI systems that enhance user experience.
- Develop systems to measure and improve AI performance and relevance.
- Direct Figma’s AI efforts in collaboration with software engineers, product managers, and data scientists.
- Break down open-ended AI problems into engineering strategies using machine learning, data analysis, and experimental design.
- Provide mentorship and promote best practices in data and AI.
- Improve the hiring process and recruit outstanding AI talent.
- Lead AI efforts from inception through implementation, productionization, and maintenance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- 1 or more years of experience developing generative AI products.
- Experience prototyping and pathfinding opportunities that led to successful 0-to-1 projects.
- Experience implementing the full lifecycle of early-phase AI development, including model selection, productionization, and maintenance.
- Ability to connect modeling and analysis tasks with product and business value.
- Preferred expertise in AI indexing, retrieval systems, personalization, and/or natural language processing.
- Preferred experience planning multi-year roadmaps that connect short-term projects to a long-term vision.
- A relevant advanced degree in machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, or a related field is preferred.
- Preferred experience mentoring and aligning senior engineers across organizations.
Benefits
- Full-time role available from a US hub or remotely within the United States.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement plan with company contribution.
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
- Mental health and wellness benefits.
- Generous paid time off and company recharge days.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Work-from-home stipend and cell phone reimbursement.
- Equity and annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
- In-person onboarding is required, and cameras must remain on during video interviews.
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About Figma
Figma builds a browser-based platform for interface design, prototyping, whiteboarding, and developer handoff used by product, design, and engineering teams. Its main products—Figma Design and FigJam—are sold as SaaS with tiered subscriptions for individuals, teams, and enterprises, plus an ecosystem of plugins and integrations. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and enables real-time collaboration on the web and desktop apps.