Manager, Software Engineering - Design Systems Adherence
Figma · New York, NY; San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
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## Figma — Manager, Software Engineering (Design Systems Adherence) Figma is growing a team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—from brainstorming and prototyping to translating designs into code and iterating with AI. As the **Engineering Manager for Design Systems Adherence**, you’ll lead the team building the workflows, tools, and quality feedback loops that help customers create design and code that correctly adheres to their design system when working with Figma’s Agents. This includes: - **Context engineering** (guidelines, examples, and documentation made useful for AI) - **Agent architecture improvements** - Creating **datasets, evaluators, and benchmarks** to measure how well outputs follow a customer’s design system You’ll set strategy across these areas, raise the bar on adherence measurement, and turn evaluation results and customer feedback into feedback loops that improve design quality. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape Figma’s Agent and improve overall design quality. An organization’s Design System is a key differentiator of design quality—helping agent output match a customer’s brand, products, and design language. Figma is also working toward **Design ↔ Code parity** and minimizing drift away from the defined design system in both code and designs. ### What you’ll do at Figma - Lead and grow a **6–8 engineer** team responsible for Design Systems Adherence across 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** so guidelines, examples, documentation, and other guidance are actionable for AI - Set the technical strategy for **adherence measurement**, including high-fidelity evaluation datasets, quality rubrics, evaluators, and deterministic regression checks - Build **benchmarking, tools, and dashboards** to help Figma and customers understand adherence (and track visual quality, latency, and cost) - Partner closely with **Product, Design, and AI Research** to achieve business impact ### We’d love to hear from you if you have - **3+ years** of experience leading and growing high-impact engineering teams with a track record of strong impact - Hands-on depth building **AI assistants**, **evaluation systems**, and using modern large language models - Fluency with modern AI development and evaluation workflows (context management, dataset curation, automated evaluators, benchmarking, regression testing) - Strong software engineering foundation and a platform mindset—building tools and systems other teams adopt and rely on - A high bar for customer experience, data quality, and reliable measurement; ability to set technical direction and drive cross-functional alignment ### Added plus (not required) - Strong understanding of **design systems** (components, tokens, usage guidelines, and integration across design and code) - Proven ability to establish **evaluation and customer feedback loops** to continuously improve AI products - Experience benchmarking AI products across **output quality, latency, and cost** and translating findings into priorities - Track record building shared evaluation tools, curated datasets, or dashboards to measure quality and prevent regressions ### Location Full-time role available from one of Figma’s **US hubs** or **remotely in the Unit
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