PhD Intern, Security Engineer, Summer 2027 at Figma

Figma is a design and collaboration platform that helps teams go from idea to product. Its Security team helps ship a secure, safe product. As a PhD Security Engineer intern you work on a project that improves the security of Figma's product, platform or infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Do security assessments, code audits and design reviews
• Build ways to prevent or reduce vulnerabilities
• Support security investigations with datasets, tooling and analysis
• Turn threat intelligence into detection and hardening
• Take part in security reviews, vulnerability triage and incident response

Requirements

• 4th or 5th year PhD student in computer science with a focus on security or similar
• Proficient in at least one general-purpose language
• Strong statistics or experimental design
• Experience weighing alternative solutions and trade-offs

Nice to have

• Publications at USENIX Security, NDSS, CCS or IEEE S&P
• Cloud, web or systems security knowledge

Location and schedule

• San Francisco or New York hub
• 12 or 16 weeks, starting May or June 2027

Salary and benefits

USD 74 an hour, plus a housing stipend and travel reimbursement.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.