Figma

AI Engineer, Internal Tools

Figma
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2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$153k - $296k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business teams to understand workflows and identify high-value AI opportunities.
  • Design, build, evaluate, and productionize AI agents, assistants, and workflow automations using LLMs, tool calling, RAG, structured outputs, agent frameworks, MCP, APIs, and enterprise data.
  • Integrate AI applications with enterprise systems, data sources, and internal APIs.
  • Build evaluations and feedback loops to measure accuracy, reliability, and business impact.
  • Design deterministic guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, and approval patterns for AI-driven business actions.
  • Build production-ready systems with observability, failure handling, security, authentication, authorization, and auditability.
  • Develop reusable AI patterns and shared capabilities with Internal AI platform teams.
  • Help define and scale Figma’s applied AI engineering practices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, integrations, backend systems, or AI-powered products.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM applications, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, schema-constrained outputs, or evaluation frameworks.
  • Experience taking AI applications or workflows from prototype to production operation.
  • Strong API, integration, and system design fundamentals, including reliable production systems with observability, failure handling, authentication, authorization, and security controls.
  • Experience translating ambiguous business problems into technical solutions while working directly with non-engineering stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with internal AI applications, Applied AI, Forward Deployed Engineering, or AI Solutions Engineering.
  • Preferred experience with MCP, agent orchestration frameworks, enterprise tool-calling patterns, AI evaluations, observability, prompt/version management, and human-in-the-loop systems.
  • Preferred knowledge of AWS Bedrock, AgentCore, OpenAI, Anthropic, Salesforce, Zendesk, Workday, NetSuite, Greenhouse, Slack, Okta, SSO, OAuth, and enterprise governance requirements such as Security, Privacy, SOX, or ITGC.

Benefits

  • Full-time role available from a US Figma hub or remotely within the United States; in-person onboarding is required if hired.
  • Equity, health, dental, vision, retirement benefits with company contributions, parental leave, reproductive and 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, lifestyle spending accounts, and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

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About Figma

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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