ML/AI Engineer, Figma
Applied Research
$149-350k
+ Equity
1-3 days a week in office
Design platform for product teams
Job no longer available
Design platform for product teams
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$149-350k
+ Equity
1-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java or R)
- 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing/understanding, computer vision, generative models
- Proven experience researching, building and/or fine-tuning ML models in production environments
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
Desirable
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
- Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
What the job involves
- We’re looking for engineers with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence background to improve our products and build new capabilities
- You will be driving fundamental and applied research in this area
- You will be combining industry best practices and a first-principles approach to design and build ML models and infrastructure that will improve Figma’s design and collaboration tool
- You will be driving fundamental and applied research in ML/AI. You will explore the boundaries of what is possible with the current technology set
- You will be combining industry best practices and a first-principles approach to design and build ML models and infrastructure
- Work in concert with other product, infrastructure engineers to improve Figma’s design and collaboration tool
Our take
Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.
Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.
Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
97% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2024
$415.7m
SERIES F
Jan 2022
$0.5m
SERIES E
Total funding: $749.1m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Health, Dental, & Vision
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave & fertility support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Generous PTO
- Company recharge days
- Learning & development stipend
- Work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
Company values
- Build community
- Run with it
- Love your craft
- Grow as you go
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Dylan Field
(CEO)Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.
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