Figma
Manager, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure
$258K–$376K
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Canada
US - Experience
- 3+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of total engineering experience.
About the job
Leads the AI Infrastructure team building and operating foundational inference systems and production services for Figma’s AI products.
What you'll do
- Lead, grow, and support engineers building AI infrastructure.
- Define technical strategy with engineering and product leaders, and manage project execution.
- Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers while contributing to technical decisions.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams.
- 8+ years of total engineering experience.
- Experience working on production AI systems.
- Experience motivating, mentoring, and growing experienced AI engineering leads, and scaling engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI agents, agent harnesses/loops, or LLM/agent tooling platforms.
- Experience building high-scale production infrastructure or a background in recommendation systems or networking.
Pay
$258,000 — $376,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI gateway, metering systems, trace infrastructure
AI focus
Builds foundational inference systems and production infrastructure for Figma’s AI products, including hosting first-party models and enabling products to use current models.
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