Staff AI Inference and Acceleration Engineer

Figure · San Jose

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Company
Figure
Location
San Jose
Salary
$180,000 - $275,000
Posted
June 26, 2026

About this job

We are looking for a Staff AI Inference & Acceleration Engineer to join the Platform Software team and own the on-board inference architecture for Figure’s humanoid robots. You will be the technical authority on how AI workloads are mapped, optimized, and executed across the robot’s compute hardware — driving down power consumption and cost while meeting the strict latency and reliability demands of a real-time autonomous system. Responsibilities: Own the on-board inference architecture — mapping models to available accelerators (NPU, GPU, DSP, CPU) based on latency, power, and memory budgets. Partition inference workloads across heterogeneous compute resources, balancing real-time performance with power and thermal constraints.…

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