AI Applied Scientist is open at Figma in San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States. The posting gives a salary of $153K - $376K. Posted on Dec 17, 2025, and still on Figma’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
at Figma: You will be driving fundamental and applied research in AI. You will explore the boundaries of what is possible with the current technology set to build best in class models for Figma’s domains You will be combining industry best practices and a first-principles approach to build cutting edge Generative AI models, using techniques like Supervised Finetuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning (RL), prompt…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Figma’s careers page.
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