Software Engineer - Machine Learning (London, United Kingdom)

Figma
London, United Kingdom
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience building generative AI products and working on agentic coding workflows.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in agentic coding workflows and AI product development
    — “built generative AI products and are eager to lead AI efforts end-to-end”
  • Individuals who have led impactful large-scale engineering projects
    — “leading large scale engineering projects with high impact”
  • Professionals comfortable with cross-functional collaboration in design and development
    — “collaborate with designers, PMs, and other engineers craft high quality products”

Things to consider

  • In-person onboarding is required, which may limit remote flexibility
    — “you will be required to attend in person onboarding”
  • Candidates must be prepared to keep cameras on during video interviews
    — “require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with LLMs and agentic workflows in your resume and interview answers
    — “Working with user facing LLM and agentic product features”
  • Demonstrate your ability to lead and mentor others, especially in cross-functional settings
    — “Be a mentor to, and be mentored by, exceptional peers across engineering, product and design”
  • Showcase your attention to detail and craftsmanship in past engineering projects
    — “Attention to detail, quality, and craftsmanship”
  • Emphasize your experience with full-stack development if applicable
    — “Shipping user-facing features or products as a full-stack developer”
  • Include examples of how you have contributed to evaluating AI systems or training models
    — “Experience curating and developing eval sets and LLMs as judges”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Build and evolve Dev Mode and MCP tools
  • Take part in building new 0→1 products within the agentic coding space
  • Collaborate with designers, PMs, and other engineers to craft high quality products
Typical background
3+ years of leading large scale engineering projects with high impactExperience curating and developing eval sets and LLMs as judges

Skills & requirements

Required

Machine LearningGenerative AI ProductsAgentic Product FeaturesAttention To DetailQualityCraftsmanshipHigh VelocityUser Impact

Preferred

ReactTypeScriptCommunication And Working Across FunctionsTrained Or Fine-tuned Llms

Stack & domain

Dev ModeMCPMakeAgentic CodingLLMEval SetsReactTypeScriptCommunicationCollaborationData VisualizationProcess OptimizationRegulatory RequirementsActuarial StandardsInternal Governance PracticesAttention To DetailBusiness AcumenIntellectual CuriosityAdaptabilityProactiveResults-orientedJudgmentIntegrityDiscretionTactAnalyticalWrittenVerbal CommunicationSelf-starterCollaborativeSolutions-drivenInterpersonalPersuasiveInfluentialTrustAlignmentInternal StakeholdersClient ServiceXFN ProjectsFull-stack DeveloperUser-facing FeaturesProactively Drive SolutionsTrained Or Fine-tuned LlmsDesignAIAgentic Product FeaturesLlms

About the role

Original posting from Figma via Greenhouse

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

At Figma we believe design doesn’t end in a file or with your designer - it includes everything that goes into the product you ship: the production code that ties it all together, the systems and developer tools that make that code reliable, the context you provide to our AI agents, and the documentation that keeps everyone on the same page.

The Roundtripping Area at Figma is redefining how Designers, PMs and Engineers collaborate. We are responsible for agentic workflows enabling ideation and prototyping on production codebases as well as accelerating the journey from design to code. In 2023, we launched Dev Mode, a suite of features that give developers everything they need to navigate design files and transform designs into code. In 2025, we introduced Figma’s MCP, accelerating how ideas get to production. Looking to the future, we aim to further reduce the barriers between design to code and code to design allowing ideation, prototyping and productionalising to happen seamlessly where it most makes sense.

Our Roundtripping team is expanding, and we’re hiring AI Product Engineers across multiple levels in the UK. We’re looking for people who have built generative AI products and are eager to lead AI efforts end-to-end, from early ideas to production.

Join us in shaping the future of AI at Figma.

What you’ll do at Figma:

Build and evolve Dev Mode our MCP tools and Make, Figma’s leading tools for dev/design collaboration

Take part in building new 0→1 products within the agentic coding space

Collaborate with designers, PMs, and other engineers craft high quality products

Be a mentor to, and be mentored by, exceptional peers across engineering, product and design

Build strong personal connections with your teammates and help shape Figma’s culture

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

3+ years of leading large scale engineering projects with high impact

Working with user facing LLM and agentic product features

Experience curating and developing eval sets and LLMs as judges

Attention to detail, quality, and craftsmanship

High velocity and a focus on user impact

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

Driving XFN projects collaborating with Product, Design, Data and Research

Shipping user-facing features or products as a full-stack developer

Demonstrated strong fluency with React and Typescript

Experience communicating and working across functions to proactively drive solutions

Trained or fine-tuned LLMs

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: 

Holding interviews in an accessible location

Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing

Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers

Changing the mode or format of interviews 

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Source: Figma careers (Greenhouse)

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