The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Design, build, and productionize ML models for Search, Discovery, Ranking,: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and generative AI features.
Build and maintain scalable data pipelines to collect high-quality training: and evaluation datasets, including annotation systems and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Collaborate with AI researchers to iterate on datasets, evaluation metrics,: and model architectures to improve quality and relevance.
Work with product engineers to define and deliver impactful AI features across Figma’s platform.
Partner with infrastructure engineers to develop and optimize systems for: training, inference, monitoring, and deployment.
Explore new ideas at the edge of what’s technically possible and help shape the long-term AI vision at Figma.
What they're looking for
- + years of industry experience in software engineering, with 3+ years focused: on applied machine learning or AI.
- Strong experience with end-to-end ML model development, including training,: evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with ML libraries like PyTorch,: TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Spark MLlib, or XGBoost.
- Experience designing and building scalable data and annotation pipelines, as: well as evaluation systems for AI model quality.
