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Figma

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United StatesFrom $376kfull-timemidAdded today

About this role

Figma is building a Forward Deployed Engineering team to embed with enterprise customers and solve complex adoption challenges by integrating Figma products into their technical environments. As a senior/staff-level engineer, you'll write product code, debug real-world integration issues, and transform field insights into scalable improvements that benefit all customers.

What you'll do

  • Embed with strategic customers to integrate Figma products into their codebases, design systems, and developer environments
  • Execute technical discovery to understand customer constraints, toolchains, and scope the fastest path to value
  • Build and configure LLM-powered workflows including MCP setup, agent skills, and prompt engineering
  • Debug complex integration problems across unfamiliar stacks, CI/CD systems, and enterprise environments
  • Transform one-off solutions into reusable playbooks and actionable product feedback for engineering teams
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Experience to shape both product and processes

What they're looking for

  • TypeScript/JavaScript or Python
  • Design systems and design-to-code workflows
  • API and SDK integration
  • Enterprise requirements (SSO, security reviews, compliance frameworks)
  • LLM and AI/agent prompt engineering
  • Frontend stack debugging and toolchain troubleshooting
  • Technical communication and customer partnership
  • End-to-end product ownership
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Figma

Figma is a design platform that leverages AI and machine learning to power intelligent features like search, ranking, and generative capabilities. The company is hiring software engineers, ML engineers, and support specialists to build scalable infrastructure, AI-powered automations, and support systems that serve millions of users.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you worked directly with customers on a complex technical problem—how did you approach it and what was the outcome?
  • Describe your experience with design systems or design-to-code workflows. What challenges have you encountered?
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