Engineering Manager, Design Systems & AI Quality

Design Better; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); Remote; USD 258,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Job summary

Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Design Systems Adherence to lead a 6-8 engineer team and drive the initiatives that ensure customer designs and code stay aligned with their design system. You’ll shape context for AI, develop tooling, and define measurement strategies that improve output quality across products.

You will partner with Product, Design, and AI Research to deliver high-impact results while growing talent and promoting engineering excellence in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading and growing high-impact engineering teams with a track record of strong impact.
• Hands-on depth in building AI assistants, evaluation systems, and using the latest large language models and harnesses.
• Fluency with modern AI development and evaluation workflows, such as context management, dataset curation, automated evaluators, benchmarking, and regression testing.
• A strong foundation in software engineering and a platform mindset: you build tools and systems other teams adopt and rely on, alongside workflows that solve real customer problems.
• A high quality bar for customer experience, data quality, and reliable measurement, and the ability to set technical direction and drive cross-functional alignment in complex environments

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a 6-8 engineer team responsible for Design Systems Adherence across our workflows.
• Coach and develop engineers through career growth, feedback, and technical leadership, building a culture of ownership and high-quality execution
• Own and evolve design system context: make guidelines, examples, documentation, and other guidance available to AI as useful, actionable context that improves how it applies a customer's system
• Set the technical strategy for adherence measurement - including high-fidelity evaluation datasets, quality rubrics, evaluators, and deterministic regression checks that catch issues as Figma's Agent evolves
• Build benchmarking, tools, and dashboards that help Figma and customers understand design system adherence and act on the results, while tracking visual quality, latency, and cost
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and AI Research teams at Figma to achieve business impact

Skills

Leadership

AI development

Software engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Tools

Evaluation tools

Job description

Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Design Systems Adherence to lead a 6-8 engineer team and drive the initiatives that ensure customer designs and code stay aligned with their design system. You’ll shape context for AI, develop tooling, and define measurement strategies that improve output quality across products.

You will partner with Product, Design, and AI Research to deliver high-impact results while growing talent and promoting engineering excellence in a fast-paced,