About this role
Figma is seeking applied scientists to drive fundamental and applied AI research and build cutting-edge generative AI models (e.g., SFT, RL, prompt improvements, synthetic data) to improve Figma products. The role involves collaborating with product and infrastructure engineers, transforming user feedback into AI system requirements, and building evaluation systems to measure and improve AI features.
Skills for this role
Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AISupervised Finetuning (SFT)Reinforcement Learning (RL)Preference-based RL (DPO)PPORL with verifiable rewards (RLVR)GRPODAPOPrompt EngineeringSynthetic Data GenerationDeep LearningPyTorchJAXHuggingFaceTraining LLMsRL from execution feedbackPythonC++JavaRDistributed AI TrainingEvaluation SystemsCross-functional CollaborationSoftware EngineeringModel Fine-tuningMentoringLarge-scale training