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About the Role

Figma is building its founding Forward Deployed Engineering team to solve complex, real-world challenges in large-scale enterprise environments. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed directly with strategic customers, working across their codebases, design systems, developer environments, and workflows to ensure Figma's products are successful within their unique technical constraints. You will tackle difficult adoption challenges hands-on, including complex frontend stacks, legacy systems, and security requirements, while building trusted partnerships with customers' senior engineering teams. This is a senior/staff-level engineering role focused on writing Figma product code and translating field insights into scalable improvements.

Responsibilities

Make an enterprise design system agent-ready for AI tools to generate faithful, on-system code by fixing tokens, naming, and guidelines, wiring up Code Connect, and running evaluations.
Ensure Make Local, Code Layers, and new products function in a customer's real environment by writing code, config, agent skills, and guideline files against their systems and Figma's.
Conduct technical discovery to understand a customer's dev environment, toolchain, and constraints, then scope the fastest credible path to value and set the customer up for long-term success.
Debug complex, unfamiliar integration problems, including git workflows, CI, dev-environment setup, and non-standard stacks.
Build LLM-powered workflows, including MCP setup, agent skills, and prompt engineering tuned to each customer's context.
Transform one-off solutions into reusable playbooks and product feedback, enabling self-serve patterns or shipped product improvements.
Communicate field friction back to Figma's Product and Engineering organizations, influence future product development, and often build those features.
Collaborate with customers' senior engineering teams to build trusted partnerships.
Take end-to-end ownership and drive solutions independently in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces.
Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Experience, Solutions Architecture, and related teams to deliver complex enterprise engagements.

Requirements

5+ years of experience shipping production software end-to-end.
Meaningful experience working directly with customers or partner teams.
Strong engineering fundamentals and adaptability.
Ability to quickly navigate unfamiliar codebases, languages, and technical environments to deliver production-ready solutions.
Experience with design systems and design-to-code workflows, including tokens and component libraries, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in this space.
Excellent customer-facing communication and technical partnership skills.
Ability to build trust with senior engineers and translate customer needs into actionable product and engineering solutions.
Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python.
Hands-on experience integrating APIs and SDKs.
Experience troubleshooting toolchains and CI environments.
Experience navigating enterprise requirements such as SSO, security reviews, access controls, data residency, and compliance frameworks.
Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces.
Strong product mindset with a track record of identifying patterns from customer engagements and translating field learnings into clear, actionable product feedback.
Familiarity with developer tools, design-to-code workflows, or AI/LLM products, including tools such as Code Connect, Storybook, Style Dictionary, or comparable technologies.
Candidates must keep cameras on during video interviews.
Required to attend in-person onboarding if hired.
Personal data in application will be processed according to Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Skills

TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
API integration
SDK integration
Toolchain troubleshooting
CI environment troubleshooting
Enterprise requirements navigation (SSO, security reviews, access controls, data residency, compliance frameworks)
Design systems
Design-to-code workflows
Tokens
Component libraries
LLM-powered workflows
Code Connect
Storybook
Style Dictionary

Location

US hubs
Remote in the United States

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
Staff

Salary/Compensations

$153,000—$376,000 USD

Benefits

Equity
Health coverage
Dental coverage
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
Other leave benefits
Paid flexible PTO (exempt employees)
Company recharge days
Cell phone reimbursement
Home internet reimbursement
Lifestyle spending accounts
Sales incentive compensation (for most sales roles)
Annual bonus plan (for eligible non-sales roles)

About the Company

Figma is growing its 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!

Equal Opportunity

Figma celebrates and supports differences, believing a rich team of diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows employees, the product, and the community to flourish.
Figma is an equal opportunity workplace, 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.
Figma considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Figma 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.
Examples of accommodations include holding interviews in an accessible location, enabling closed captioning on video conferencing, ensuring all written communication is compatible with screen readers, and changing the mode or format of interviews.