# Applied Data Researcher

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! Figma is building the system of record for digital product development: collaborative tools with natural interfaces that bring PMs, developers, QA, and designers together. That creates new-to-the-world problems in how we build AI products, understand how people use them, and evaluate what makes them useful. You'll work with a unique, petabyte-scale dataset with rich traces of collaborative design and product building to tackle those problems. We're looking for an Applied Data Researcher who combines scientific depth with a proactive builder mindset. Reporting directly to our Head of Data, with regular visibility with C-level executives, you'll identify and vet opportunities, lead investigations into critical qu

- **Id**: 4200366
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/figma-applied-data-researcher>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:36:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T22:00:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8878
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Internet reimbursement, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Design, Design & Prototyping Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 2804
- **Name**: Figma
- **Domain**: figma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/figma>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 107
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.308
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 77
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 235000
- **Max**: 376000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 376000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T22:00:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 76 · green card filings: 15; Filings 12m: 76

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 77
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T23:42:32Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 376000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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