Manager, Software Engineering - AI Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Remote · US · USD 258,000-376,000 / year · 3+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Remote · US
- Salary
- USD 258,000-376,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- The AI Infrastructure team builds the foundational inference systems that sit at the core of Figma’s AI products.
- This role is an opportunity to join a rapidly-growing team at the ground floor and directly contribute to our core AI platform.
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.
Preferred qualifications
- 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.
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits
- Exempt employees are eligible for employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave
- Company recharge days
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
Skills
- AI
- LLM
