Abhishek Mathur’s Post

𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗮 𝗔𝗜 I am thrilled to introduce our new AI features to help you push past creative blocks and bring your best ideas to life. We have been working on this for the past year, and I am very proud of what we are releasing today: Generating designs with prompt: Now you can generate UI layouts from your text prompts. By helping you get ideas down quickly, this feature enables you to explore various design directions and arrive at a solution faster. Visual Search lets you find and reuse designs by uploading an image, selecting an area on your canvas, or entering a text query. Enhanced productivity in Figma with AI: We are launching many features to make you more productive in Figma so you can spend more time on innovation and creativity. You can now create AI-enabled interactive prototypes, generate images, automatically rename layers with intuitive names, and translate/shorten/rewrite text. More details: https://lnkd.in/gcHu9PBv #ai #figma #config24 #design

AI ROLES TO MAKE DESIGN ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE Wanted to share a few exciting AI opportunities on my team in Figma: - EM for ML Infra: Opportunity to build the infrastructure for training, hosting, serving, and evaluating models. It is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing team building the AI infrastructure for Figma AI initiatives.  https://lnkd.in/gDNpzCWK - EM for ML Research: This role will support part of the AI foundational and applied research team. It is a unique opportunity to apply AI to make the brainstorming, designing, and development easier and more efficient. https://lnkd.in/gij5nG-i - EM for Search: Lead the team using AI to make Search better (Content, Designs, Images, Icons). You will lead the the discoverability and recommendations for Figma. https://lnkd.in/guNeaYuR We are also hiring for senior ICs on these teams. You will get to work with this amazing set of people in this role - Samir Goel, Jay Pillai, Spencer de Mars, Tommy MacWilliam, Dave Capra #AI #AIJobs #infrastructure, #hiring , #engineering , #engineeringmanagement , #figma, #AI , #ML, #Design

As Dylan shared here, Figma and Adobe have reached a joint decision to end our pending acquisition. I am proud of how the Figma team delivered for our community in the past 15 months. Our team built and shipped new products to make it easier to ideate, design and build software, including our first native AI features, Dev Mode, Variables, and Advanced Prototyping. We also opened new hubs in the UK and Asia, hosted an epic Config IRL in San Francisco, acquired AI startup Diagram, and added more than 500 new Figmates. Figma’s founding vision was to “eliminate the gap between imagination and reality.” The shift from a physical economy to a digital economy and huge advances in AI have combined to make this aspiration feel even more urgent and within reach. We want to make it easy for anyone to design and build digital products on a single multiplayer canvas—from start to finish, idea to production. I am excited for what the future holds. Figma’s best, most innovative days are still ahead!

Happy to share this AI enabled capability in FigJam! This makes meetings, planning, org charts and many other tedious tasks feel easy and magical.

I am really excited to announce that Figma now has a beautiful new office location in Seattle Downtown: https://lnkd.in/gy3ZYhxF. We are hiring Product, Production and Infrastructure Engineering Managers in Seattle. Let me know if you are interested in joining this rocket ship with a beautiful view :-) #infrastructure #hiring #engineering #engineeringmanagement #figma

Glad to see this recognition for FigJam! Really a great collaboration, ideation and brainstorming product. We are hiring engineers (C++, WebAssembly, Performances, AI) and Engineering Managers to be part of the Creation Engine team that powers FigJam and #figma . #mobileappdevelopment #webassembly #C++

Thank you Meta! After 8 years, my journey at Meta has come to an end. This will be my last week at Meta. I knew this was a special place when I stepped into the campus and met all the amazing people. I was blown away by the big ambitions of the company - we were laying fiber across the ocean, building planes to beam internet, growing our infrastructure by 100X to support Video growth. Focus on making each other more successful and better was unlike anything I had seen before. It was captured by a beautiful graffiti on the walls of my building. Last 8 years have been the most rewarding time of my career. I had the privilege to build Video products and infrastructure that touch Billions of people everyday. Some of the cool things I got to work on with my amazing team: - Developing the Video platform (https://bit.ly/3D2nNJL) that processes Billions of Videos everyday and enables Billion+ hours of watch time on Meta products. I am proud that we won the 72nd Emmy Award (https://bit.ly/3REtSAm) for this work. - Building Facebook Live in a Hackathon in 2015 (https://bit.ly/3erMDZx). We quickly added the capability to do multi-party Live and Live API. Since then, billions of broadcasts have happened on this platform and often millions of people watch a single Live stream. Live is a powerful tool to give voice to everyone and connect people across the world. - Building the Video matching system for copyright/integrity and acquiring VIdentifier tech from Iceland to accelerate the work and preventing bad players. - Supporting world’s best Video Codec Software and Hardware team. We were a late entrant to Videos space and now we are one of the leaders in Video compression by integrating HW/SW Video tech. This effort really proved that well executed long range efforts pay off big time! - Enhancing Audio for Videos and bringing in Accusonus team from Greece with some of the world’s best experts in Audio technology. - Organizing Video@Scale (https://bit.ly/3TOL4om) for the last 6 years to share and learn Video technology at Scale. I am proud of the team and what we have achieved together. I will forever be thankful to my amazing team and so many inspiring people in the company who helped me be more successful and made me a better leader. Most valuable part of my experience here will be the relationships, which I am sure will transcend organizations. I will be starting my new adventure next week, more on it later.

Product@Scale We are doing our first Product@Scale event in the @Scale series of events, on April 27th. Great opportunity to hear from Google, Meta, Twitch, Statis, Nvidia.. on how they build Products at Scale! Topics range from talks by WhatsApp team on Building Private Products to YouTube team talking about Trust and Safety. We also have two Live panel discussions. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gCJkxZtv Particularly excited to hear from my favourite speaker Vijaye!

I am happy to share that my team - Video Infrastructure Engineering team won the prestigious 72nd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy®! This was awarded for the work we did on "Development of Massive Processing Optimized Compression Technologies". We finally got the beautiful trophy last week. This is very special recognition for our team as we are a relatively new team in Video Industry. I am very proud of what the team has been able to accomplish in a short period of time and more excited about things in pipeline! I can see many more to come with the work we are doing. Congratulations team! We are hiring, so please reach out if you want to work on Video, Audio and Live! Qi, Peter, Iaroslav, Amit, Paul, Atasay, Jim, David, Mihir, Michael, Mathieu, Amit, Roberto, Ioannis, Rajeev, Paresh, Sachin, Dane #techology #videostreaming #mediaindustry #livebroadcasting #emmys2021 #videotechnology