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.
Responsibilities
- Drive fundamental and applied research in AI
- Build cutting edge Generative AI models using techniques like Supervised Finetuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning (RL), prompt improvements and synthetic data generation
- Work with product and infrastructure engineers to improve Figma’s products through AI powered features
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to transform user feedback into requirements for AI systems
- Build evaluation systems to measure and improve quality of AI features
Requirements
- Extensive experience in building generative AI features through prompt engineering and fine tuning models in production environments
- Experience with deep learning and generative AI frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, HuggingFace
- Experience training LLMs with Reinforcement Learning techniques (DPO, PPO, GRPO/DAPO)
- 4+ years in Generative AI, 6+ years in machine learning, NLP, or computer vision
- Strong software engineering skills with 5+ years in Python, C++, Java or R
- Experience communicating and working across functions
Conditions
- Full time role, remote within United States or US hubs
- Annual base salary range: $153,000 - $376,000 USD
- Equity, health/dental/vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, learning & development stipend, work from home stipend, cell phone reimbursement