# PhD Intern, Software Engineer - Interaction Design (2027)

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’s Interaction Design team helps designers express how interactive experiences behave from a single interaction, to a multi-state flow, to a series of complex animated transitions. We’re interested in making complex interactive behavior easier to author, refine and understand. This team investigates and identifies new ways to visualize and manage state, animations, interactions, and prototypes through click-through and code-backed experiences. As a PhD intern, you’ll combine HCI research with hands-on-engineering to help define the next generation of interactive experience design tooling. You’ll work closely with a mentor and teammates and get to learn, contribute, and grow in a supportive environment, whi

- **Id**: 3762149
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/figma-phd-intern-software-engineer-interaction-design-2027>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **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**: 2026-11-04T16:53:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T07:28:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6017
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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**: 116
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.31
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 77
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T18:54:45Z

## 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**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 77
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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