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Salary: USD 185,000 - 317,000 / annual
Figma is seeking a Technical Program Manager specializing in AI Performance to own performance prevention, diagnostics, and safe rollout for both flagship products and next-generation AI features. This is a platform-level role spanning desktop, browser, and mobile environments.
You will own horizontal, high-visibility performance programs including: flagship product performance (load times, FPS, memory) and AI features (model inference latency, throughput, cost, and reliability); desktop, browser, native mobile (React Native/WebView), and WASM contexts; and cross-org initiatives such as observability/telemetry, regression prevention through performance CI, cross-functional performance forums, SEV mitigation, safe rollout of AI capabilities, and customer engineering planning.
You'll partner across Product, Platform, Performance Program, and Product Support teams to keep Figma performant and reliable.
Required qualifications: 5+ years in performance engineering, performance TPM, platform TPM, or SRE with hands-on experience shipping performance programs for SaaS products. Demonstrated experience with load, stress, performance, or scalability testing and new-build comparisons. Deep familiarity with web performance metrics (FCP, LCP), rendering/FPS, WASM memory, and mobile profiling tools (Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler). CI/CD and test automation experience integrating performance tests into pipelines. Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS), autoscaling, and capacity planning. Hands-on prior work with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent platforms.
Desirable: MLops or LLM experience (inference latency tradeoffs, batching, caching); observability stacks (Datadog, Sentry, RUM); background as a performance engineer with code or test harness contributions; experience with large enterprise planning and customer load tests; familiarity with real-time collaborative systems and GPU/WASM performance constraints.
Figma offers competitive compensation, equity, health/dental/vision coverage, retirement benefits with company contributions, parental leave, mental health and wellness benefits, and flexible PTO. This is a full-time role based in one of Figma's US hubs or remote within the United States.
