Manager, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure

Figma is hiring a hands-on engineering leader for its AI Infrastructure team. The role leads and grows the team, sets technical strategy, and helps build reliable foundational infrastructure for Figma’s AI products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure for Figma’s AI products
• Partner with engineering and product leaders from across Figma to define the team’s technical strategy and manage the day-to-day project execution
• Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers to scale the team
• Roll up your sleeves to engage deeply with technical details and decisions as needed in order to help the team deliver on a robust AI platform with urgency
• Build an inclusive team and culture through thoughtful team-building and hiring practices

Requirements:

• 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 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