Developer Productivity Intern [Winter 2027]
Figure
San Jose, CAFresher1h agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA. We are looking for a Developer Productivity Intern to join the Developer Productivity team. You will design and build infrastructure and tools for Figure that accelerate the software development lifecycle. Your work will have a broad impact across the security, cost, and performance of all Figure development.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture and implementation of our next-generation, large scale build and deployment infrastructure.
- Redefine our development environments for ease of use and an order of magnitude improvement in developer productivity.
- Develop backend and frontend tools to support the build infrastructure.
- Work closely with firmware, embedded, middleware and AI/ML engineers to ship new platforms and features at unprecedented speed.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong Linux and systems fundamentals: networking, storage, processes, and containers.
- Proficient in at least one of Go, Rust, C++, or Python.
Qualifications
- Rising senior or recent graduate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field; must be graduating within one year.
- Minimum 10 weeks working at Figure headquarters.
- Projects using 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 any of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).