# Technical Program Manager, AI Performance

**Company:** [Figma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/figma)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $185k – $317k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Performance Testing, Load Testing, Web Performance, React Native, Wasm, AWS, CI/CD, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Datadog, Sentry, MLOps, Autoscaling, Capacity Planning, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-03-28

> Leads platform-level performance programs for Figma's flagship products and AI features across desktop, browser, and mobile. Requires 5+ years in performance engineering or TPM, expertise in testing, observability, and AI latency optimization.

## Job Description

## 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)

## We'd love to hear from you if you have:

- 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

## While it's not required, it's an added plus if you also have:

- 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

## Similar roles

- [Technical Program Manager, Data Science](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/752597a1-44fa-48ba-a636-8d7c378828f7) - Figma - San Francisco, CA - $185k – $317k/yr
- [Technical Program Builder](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/b607d553-881a-4fb2-8b7c-6656d9e64746) - Hinge Health - San Francisco, CA - $184k – $276k/yr
- [Technical Program Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c77bff0f-5d21-4cba-9741-f0415e1cf3c0) - Forward Networks - Santa Clara, CA - $190k – $220k/yr
- [Technical Program Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6038258f-e588-4590-972d-abfa83e55551) - Machinify - Remote - $180k – $240k/yr
- [Engagement Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/11160d1a-3f94-402f-9d43-6308b254833d) - Mercor - San Francisco, CA - $180k – $200k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6e1677cb-9f1f-4b31-82d2-b96fb68b8318
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6e1677cb-9f1f-4b31-82d2-b96fb68b8318