Senior Forward Deployed Engineer for Enterprise

Figma; New York (NY); On-site; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Job summary

Figma is expanding its Forward Deployed Engineering team to bring our design platform into large enterprise environments. You will embed with strategic customers, writing code and building runtime workflows that adapt to each environment, while collaborating with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Experience teams.

This senior/staff-level role is highly collaborative and customer-facing, with periodic travel to work alongside strategic customers in person, and can be full-time from US

Qualifications

• 5 years shipping production software end-to-end, with meaningful time embedded with customers or partner teams.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and adaptability, with the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and environments to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Hands-on experience with design systems and design-to-code workflows, including component libraries and tokens.

Responsibilities

• Make an enterprise design system agent-ready so AI tools generate faithful, on-system code and fix tokens, naming, and guidelines.
• Get Make Local, Code Layers, and our newest products working in a customer's real environment, writing code, config, agent skills, and guideline files against their systems and ours.
• Run technical discovery to understand a customer's dev environment and scope the fastest credible path to value.
• Debug hard, unfamiliar integration problems (git workflows, CI, dev-environment setup, non-standard stacks).
• Build LLM-powered workflows: MCP setup, agent skills, and prompt engineering tuned to each customer's context.
• Turn one-off solutions into reusable playbooks and product feedback for self-serve or shipped product.
• Bring learnings back to product/engineering, influence what gets built next, and often build it.

Skills

Customer-facing communication

Engineering fundamentals

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

Agentic coding tools

API/SDK integration

CI environments

SSO & security reviews

Data residency & compliance

Design systems & design-to-code

Tools

Code Connect

Storybook

Style Dictionary

Job description

Figma is expanding its Forward Deployed Engineering team to bring our design platform into large enterprise environments. You will embed with strategic customers, writing code and building runtime workflows that adapt to each environment, while collaborating with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Experience teams.

This senior/staff-level role is highly collaborative and customer-facing, with periodic travel to work alongside strategic customers in person, and can be full-time from US