Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Figma is hiring a hands-on engineering leader for its AI Infrastructure team. The role leads and grows the team, sets technical strategy, and helps build reliable foundational infrastructure for Figma’s AI products.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave
- Reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws
- For exempt employees: employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave; PTO is subject to manager approval
- Benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts
- Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
- Full-time role may be held remotely in the United States
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