Technical Program Manager, AI Performance

What you'll do at Figma

This is a specialist Platform TPM owning horizontal, high-visibility performance programs that span:

• Flagship product performance (load times, FPS, memory) and AI features (model inference latency, throughput, cost, and reliability)
• Desktop, browser, native mobile (React Native / WebView), and WASM contexts
• Cross-org programs: observability/telemetry, regression prevention (performance CI), xfn performance forum, SEV mitigation, safe rollout of AI capabilities, and CE Planning (customer engineering / enterprise readiness)

Requirements

• 5+ years in performance engineering, performance TPM, platform TPM, or SRE with hands-on experience shipping performance programs for SaaS products
• Demonstrated experience with load, stress, performance or scalability testing and new-build comparisons
• Deep familiarity with web performance (FCP, LCP), rendering/FPS, WASM memory, mobile profiling (Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler)
• CI/CD and test automation experience: integrating performance tests into pipelines
• Distributed systems, cloud infra (AWS), autoscaling, and capacity planning
• Hands-on prior work with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MLops or LLMs: inference latency tradeoffs, batching, caching, etc
• Observability stack: Datadog / Sentry / RUM
• Background as a performance engineer (not just TPM) with code or test harness contributions
• Experience with large enterprise Planning / customer load tests
• Familiarity with real-time collaborative systems and GPU/WASM performance constraints

Pay

Annual Base Salary Range: $185,000 - $317,000 USD