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About the Role
As a PhD intern, you’ll combine HCI research with hands-on engineering to help define the next generation of interactive experience design tooling. You’ll work closely with a mentor and teammates, learning, contributing, and growing in a supportive environment while applying your research background to drive real-world impact.
Responsibilities
- Be fully embedded onto a Figma team working on problems that intersect with your research area
- Drive projects that apply research insights to meaningful product challenges
- Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and researchers to scope and execute your work
- Develop, validate, and document solutions from prototypes to production-ready systems
- Share your expertise through presentations, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration
- Deliver a project with real impact by the end of your internship
Requirements
- Current enrollment as a 4th or 5th year senior PhD student pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex research concepts into practical, scalable solutions
- A track record of rigorous problem-solving through academic or applied research
- Proficiency in at least one general purpose coding language
Skills
- Creative portfolio of work consisting of time-based media, animation, game development, digital illustration, or another creative field
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience collaborating across functions
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code
- Applied engineering skills via industry experience, prior internships or similar experience
- First-author publications in top academic conferences related to our team’s focus areas
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
Work Type
- Internship
- Onsite
Experience Level
- PhD Intern
Education Level
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $74 - $74 USD per hour
Benefits
- Housing stipend
- Travel reimbursement
About the Company
- 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!
- Figma’s Interaction Design team helps designers express how interactive experiences behave from a single interaction, to a multi-state flow, to a series of complex animated transitions.
- We’re interested in making complex interactive behavior easier to author, refine and understand.
- This team investigates and identifies new ways to visualize and manage state, animations, interactions, and prototypes through click-through and code-backed experiences.
- 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.
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.
- 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.