AI Engineer, Internal Tools at Figma | CA, US | Rezi

AI Engineer, Internal Tools at Figma

AI Engineer, Internal Tools

Figma · CA, US

1 weeks ago

AI Engineer, Internal Tools

Figma · CA, US

11 days ago
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About the Role

Figma's Internal AI team is seeking an AI Engineer to join the Applied AI Builds pillar. This role will partner with teams across the company to identify and productionize high-value AI opportunities, shaping the future of AI adoption and collaboration within Figma.

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with teams across GTM, Finance, People, Legal, Support, and other business functions to understand workflows and identify high-value opportunities for AI
  • Design, build, 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 and data sources across GTM, Finance, People, Support, 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 workflows where AI systems take business-critical actions
  • Build production-ready systems with strong observability, failure handling, security, authentication, authorization, and auditability
  • Identify reusable patterns across individual AI projects and build them out as shared components and capabilities in partnership with Internal AI platform teams
  • Help define how Figma approaches Applied AI engineering and scales AI adoption across the company

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, integrations, backend systems, or AI-powered products
  • Hands-on experience building applications with LLMs, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, schema-constrained outputs, or evaluation frameworks
  • Experience taking an AI application or workflow beyond a prototype and operating it in a production environment
  • Strong API, integration, and system design fundamentals
  • Experience connecting applications across multiple systems and data sources
  • Strong engineering judgment about when to apply AI and when a rules-based approach is the right choice
  • Experience designing reliable production systems with appropriate observability, failure handling, authentication, authorization, and security controls
  • Experience working directly with non-engineering stakeholders to understand ambiguous business problems and translate them into technical solutions
  • Ability to move quickly from discovery to prototype while understanding what is required to safely and reliably productionize a solution

Skills

  • LLMs
  • Tool calling
  • RAG
  • Structured outputs
  • Agent frameworks
  • MCP
  • APIs
  • Enterprise data
  • AI agents
  • AI assistants
  • Workflow automations
  • Evaluation frameworks
  • Observability
  • Failure handling
  • Security
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Auditability
  • AWS Bedrock
  • AgentCore
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Salesforce
  • Zendesk
  • Workday
  • NetSuite
  • Greenhouse
  • Slack
  • AI evaluations
  • Prompt management
  • Version management
  • Human-in-the-loop systems
  • Okta
  • SSO
  • OAuth
  • Service-to-service authentication

Location

  • US hubs
  • Remote in the United States

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

  • $153,000—$296,000 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
  • Employer-provided paid flexible PTO
  • 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.
  • Figma employees are among the most AI-active in the industry.
  • The Internal AI team, part of FTS (Business Technology org), helps turn AI energy into meaningful impact by making it easier for every Figmate to safely adopt AI and use it to improve how they work.
  • The team is small, high-leverage, and organized around three pillars: Platform & Tooling, Infrastructure & Hosting, and Applied AI Builds.

Equal Opportunity

  • 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.