Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Figma is a company on a mission to make design accessible to all, and they are seeking engineers to join their Code Platform team. This role focuses on building foundational infrastructure for code translation, integrating AI into workflows, and enhancing product performance and observability.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve code ↔ design translation pipelines, including AI-powered and agentic workflows
- Build and iterate on LLM integrations that power code generation, design interpretation, and agentic feature surfaces
- Design evaluation frameworks for AI-generated code outputs quality, correctness, and format fidelity
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks and long-running tasks that impact product SLAs
- Improve correctness, reconciliation, and fidelity across complex design system and layout edge cases
- Build scalable serialization pipelines, internal APIs, and platform utilities
- Partner with product leads to define long term product enablement and build foundational infra
- Improve observability and ownership of key metrics (latency, success rate, correctness)
- Support and drive architectural direction and long-term platform strategy for a translation surface
- Mentor engineers and shape the long-term team structure
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, especially in web, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend fundamentals
- Deep experience with declarative UI systems (React, JSX, or similar)
- Familiarity with ASTs, code transformation, or compilation concepts
- Experience building features that integrate LLMs or AI models into a product not just using AI tools, but shipping with them
- Experience debugging performance, rendering, or pipeline latency issues
- Experience building complex, cross-team platforms with multiple stakeholder groups
- Experience with prompt engineering, RAG patterns, or model evaluation
- Experience with code generation models or AST-level code manipulation
- Prior work on agentic workflows or multi-step LLM pipelines
- Experience with MCP, tool-use APIs, or AI developer ecosystems
- Experience building design systems or component libraries
- Platform or infrastructure engineering experience (APIs, observability, SLAs)
- Rendering, layout, or graphics pipeline knowledge
Benefits
- Equity to employees
- Health, dental & vision
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health & wellness benefits
- Generous PTO
- Company recharge days
- A learning & development stipend
- A work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Sales incentive pay for most sales roles
- An annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
Company Overview
Figma is a collaborative design tool that enables teams to create, prototype, and test digital products on one platform. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.figma.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Figma has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 12 in 2026, 47 in 2025, 27 in 2024, 32 in 2023, 35 in 2022, 16 in 2021, 6 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.