<div class="content-intro"><p>Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!</p></div><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">We're looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure. At Figma, we pair interns with teams that align with their skills and interests. This year, we're inviting you to share your interests from the start, so we can create the strongest possible match.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Our interns are embedded into small, collaborative engineering teams across the company. You'll work closely with your mentor and teammates to ship meaningful features, tools, or systems. Whether you're working on internal infrastructure or user-facing features, you'll get to learn, contribute, and grow in a supportive environment.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York Hub with a January 4, 2027 start date.</p>
<h4 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Engineering Interests at Figma:</strong></h4>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">When you apply, you'll tell us which areas you're most interested in to help us understand which kinds of engineering work you're most excited about:</p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Product: Build full stack user facing features, including new collaboration tools, new product workflows, growth oriented experiments, and more</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Platform/Infrastructure: Build platform level tools, including distributed systems, developer tooling, performance/scalability work, and more</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Security Engineering: Build security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, or privacy/security features</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Open: I'm flexible and still exploring different types of work</li>
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<h4 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>What you'll do at Figma:</strong></h4>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Be fully embedded onto a Figma engineering team</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Share feedback and participate in peer code review</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship!</li>
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<h4 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Some past intern projects:</strong></h4>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><a class="underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href="https://x.com/peterdpong/status/1554514887052693504?s=21&t=WNnRrJF5DRxo0EcNopDj1Q">Diagramming improvements in FigJam</a></li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><a class="underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href="https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-smart-selection/">Smart selection</a></li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2"><a class="underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href="https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039956774-Upload-custom-fonts-to-an-organization">Shared fonts</a></li>
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<h4 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>We'd love to hear from you if you have:</strong></h4>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.), with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Are excited to explore how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong communicator who asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Pay Transparency Disclosure</span></strong></p>
<p>This internship role is based in either Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below. Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.</p></div><div class="title">Internship</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$55</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$55 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf">equal opportunity workplace</a> - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status<strong>, </strong>or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.</p>
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