Manager, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure

Figma is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to join the AI Infrastructure team, which builds the foundational inference systems at the core of Figma's AI products. The team owns critical production services like the AI gateway, metering systems, and trace infrastructure, as well as the 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 Figma's core AI platform.

• Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure for Figma's AI products.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to define the team's technical strategy and manage day-to-day project execution.
• Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers to scale the team.
• Engage deeply with technical details and decisions to help the team deliver 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 and building technical depth in a new domain.
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams and org structure as they grow.

• 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.

Annual base salary range: $258,000—$376,000 USD. Figma offers equity, health/dental/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, and other leave benefits. Exempt employees are eligible for flexible PTO. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.

Apply through the Figma Greenhouse job posting. Figma limits candidates to 5 applications per rolling 30-day period and prohibits reapplying to the same role within 90 days of rejection.