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Software Engineer, AI Platforms
ICT
Company shared salary
NA
Market rate
15,000 CAD–25,000 CAD/mo (180,000 CAD–300,000 CAD/yr)
Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).
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 AI Platform teams build the core frameworks, abstractions, and systems that support AI features across Figma. We create new capabilities that AI product teams can build on, while collaborating with teams from around the company to improve our performance, reliability, and technical quality. We're looking for strong infrastructure and platform-minded engineers to contribute to our agent infrastructure, context retrieval & ranking platform, and core AI services, in order to accelerate our most critical company-wide AI initiatives. Here are just a few areas our platform teams work on: This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
Responsibilities
- ● Support end-to-end AI feature development by designing, building, and maintaining systems that are scalable, reliable, and performant.
- ● Collaborate with product, research, and infrastructure engineers working across AI.
- ● Help shape our platform strategy, roadmaps, and engineering best practices throughout the organization.
- ● Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack.
- ● Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and technical excellence.
- ● 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, especially in backend or infrastructure engineering.
- ● 3+ years of experience in one or more of: AI, search infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- ● Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, or Ruby.
- ● Strong system design skills and a track record of architecting resilient production systems.
- ● Excellent communication skills, with experience collaborating across teams and mentoring others.
- ● Prior experience in building AI infrastructure at scale, whether that be model training or serving platforms.
- ● Experience evolving large-scale, shared developer platforms to improve reliability and developer velocity.
- ● A proven track record of leading technical strategy and complex, multi-team projects.
- ● 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
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