Job Description
Title: Engineering Manager – Machine Learning
Location: San Francisco, CA New York, NY United States
Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, create, test, and ship better designs, together. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone come make with us!
Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, create, test, and ship better designs, together. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone come make with us!
We’re looking for a leader for our Machine Learning Engineering team that is bringing cutting-edge Machine Learning and AI technology to Figma’s industry-leading design and collaboration products. You will be leading a team that is driving fundamental and applied research in this area, combining industry best practices and a first-principles approach to design and build ML models and infrastructure that will improve Figma’s products. You will be building, leading and supporting a world-class team of ML Engineers to bring this innovative research to a new space and support Figma users all over the world.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- Manage a team of ML Engineers that are driving fundamental and applied research in ML/AI. You and the team will explore the boundaries of what is possible with the current technology set
- Hire and develop a world-class team of engineers
- Combine industry best practices and a first-principles approach to design and build ML models and infrastructure
- Work in concert with other product and infrastructure engineers to improve Figma’s design and collaboration products
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, natural language understanding/generation or artificial intelligence
- 2+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering and/or applied research teams
- Experience building and productionizing ML models within highly used products and services
- Advanced education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field OR relevant experience preferred
- Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
- Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
- Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision