Manager, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure

The AI Infrastructure team builds the foundational inference systems that sit at the core of Figma’s AI products. Our team is responsible for ensuring products like Figma Make and Figma Agent are highly reliable, easily observable, and can seamlessly leverage the latest cutting-edge models. Our team owns critical production services like our AI gateway, metering systems, and trace infrastructure, as well as our strategy for hosting first-party models. This role is an opportunity to join a rapidly-growing team at the ground floor and directly contribute to our core AI platform.

We’re looking for a hands-on engineering leader to support & grow our team, define & execute on our technical strategy, and collaborate with teams across engineering to build best-in-class AI features.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure for Figma’s AI products.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders from across Figma to define the team’s technical strategy and manage the day-to-day project execution.
• Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers to scale the team.
• Roll up your sleeves to engage deeply with technical details and decisions as needed in order to help the team deliver on a robust AI platform with urgency.
• Build an inclusive team and culture through thoughtful team-building and hiring practices.

• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing, fast-moving teams, ideally in the AI space.
• 8+ years of total engineering experience, ideally reaching a staff engineering level as an individual contributor.
• Experience working on production AI systems.
• A proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and growing experienced AI engineering leads.
• Demonstrated experience learning new AI technologies quickly building technical depth in a new domain.
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams and org structure as they grow.

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience building AI agents, agent harnesses/loops, or LLM/agent tooling platforms.
• Experience building high-scale production infrastructure (e.g., traffic/inference systems, metering, anti-abuse and billing systems).
• A background in adjacent platform domains, like recommendation systems or networking.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

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.

PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$258,000—$376,000 USD

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.

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.