Software Engineer, Developer Tools and Productivity

Position Overview

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid designed for corporate tasks that address labor shortages and perform jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. Based in San Jose, CA, the role requires 5 days/week of in‐office collaboration. It's time to build.

We are looking for a Software Engineer passionate about developer productivity, automation, and continuous improvement to accelerate the development of the first humanoid robot that will be manufactured and deployed at scale.

Compensation: The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $260,000 annually. The pay may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, with additional benefits provided if an employment offer is extended.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop tools to provide fast and reliable deployment of engineering builds.
• Improve tooling and processes to integrate third party repositories.
• Optimize build time and help scale the execution of automated tests and analyses.
• Provide developers with an easy-to-set-up development environment aimed at accelerating software development.
• Collaborate with all engineering teams to prioritize feature development, optimizations, and reliability improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 3 years of industry experience.
• Mastery of configuration management (GIT).
• Expertise with C++ and Python build and software integration tools (Bazel, CMake, make, etc.).
• Proficiency with scripting languages including Python and Bash.
• Experience with any of the major cloud providers.
• Comfortable with a broad range of continuous integration tools (GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.) and deployment tools (Ansible, etc.).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• Mastery of Linux, Docker, and microservices architecture.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile and Test-Driven Development principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with web development languages and tools (HTML, CSS, JavaScripts).
• Deep understanding of key and certificate management as well as cryptographic signing and verification.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: $150,000 - $260,000 annually
• Additional benefits and rewards may be included based on individual factors and further offer details.