Developer Productivity Intern [Winter 2027]

Figure • San Jose, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots, with the goal of shipping humanoid robots with human-level intelligence. Its robots are engineered for tasks in home and commercial markets, and the company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Figure is seeking a Developer Productivity Intern to join its Developer Productivity team. The intern will design and build infrastructure and tools that accelerate the software development lifecycle and broadly affect the security, cost, and performance of software development across the company. The position is for Winter 2027 and requires at least 10 weeks working at Figure headquarters.

Requirements

• Be a rising senior or recent graduate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, and be graduating within one year.
• Work at Figure headquarters for a minimum of 10 weeks.
• Have strong Linux and systems fundamentals, including networking, storage, processes, and containers.
• Be proficient in at least one of Go, Rust, C++, or Python.

Nice To Haves

• Projects involving distributed systems, content-addressable storage, or caching.
• Experience with Bazel.
• Experience deploying services with Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Experience with LLMs and other AI tooling.
• Experience with a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of next-generation, large-scale build and deployment infrastructure.
• Redefine development environments to improve ease of use and developer productivity by an order of magnitude.
• Develop backend and frontend tools to support build infrastructure.
• Work closely with firmware, embedded, middleware, and AI/ML engineers to ship new platforms and features.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern