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INTRODUCTION

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. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and help build the foundational systems that power Figma’s next generation of AI-driven products and data experiences. This is a unique opportunity to be an early engineer shaping Figma’s ML and data platform, enabling everything from self-serve analytics to production-grade AI systems. You’ll work at the intersection of data, infrastructure, and machine learning, building scalable systems that empower Data Science, unlock AI capabilities across the company, and bring data and models closer to the product experience. This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead work on Figma’s AI data agent to enable self-serve analytics by owning the data-agent layer, building prompt-processing pipelines, instrumenting interactions, and delivering prompt-based usage analytics
- Own and evolve Figma’s ML and data platform, including model serving, feature pipelines, workflow orchestration, CI/CD for models, and production monitoring
- Build product-facing data systems and data products so models and data become first-class components of Figma’s product experience
- Ship platform tooling that enables Data Science teams to deploy, iterate on, and operate models effectively, including feature stores, rollout systems, and observability
- Design and scale infrastructure for AI-assisted and natural language interfaces to data, unlocking self-serve analytics across the company
- Drive cross-functional platform initiatives, aligning data contracts, SLAs, and system design across Data Science, AI/ML, Infrastructure, and Product
- Improve the developer experience for ML and data practitioners through robust abstractions, tooling, and platform capabilities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of experience in data platform, infrastructure, or machine learning engineering, with at least 1+ years working on AI or ML systems
- Experience building and operating end-to-end ML systems in production (training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring)
- Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language, with proven ability to build reliable, scalable systems and services
- Experience designing ML infrastructure (model serving, feature pipelines, workflow orchestration) and scalable system architectures
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and drive projects across Data Science, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Product, with experience in data modeling and data product design

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with ML platform tooling such as MLflow, Kubeflow, feature stores, or CI/CD for ML workflows
- Familiarity with LLMs, RAG systems, prompt processing, or AI-native infrastructure
- Experience building self-serve analytics platforms or internal data tools
- Experience with modern data stack technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, or Dagster, and cloud platforms such as AWS
- A strong product mindset and interest in connecting platform work to user and business impact

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

COMPENSATION

- Annual Base Salary Range: $235,000—$376,000 USD

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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