# Jenning Chen

> Engineering @ Simile

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jenning

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Simile
Jan 2026 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025
- Built core editor features, including component properties, variables, AI design generation.
- Designed & built a framework (patent pending) that generically and performantly powers parameters in the Figma editor. Think variables, component properties, CMS, and more. Supported the development of several new Figma products on this framework. https://www.figma.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-parameter-architectures/
- Collaborated closely on features for products across the company, including Buzz, Prototyping, Sites, Slides, and more.
- Focused on efforts to improve abstractions, correctness, and performance in the Figma editor.

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ DRW
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineer @ Embark Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Student Researcher @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Boston

### Research Science Institute Scholar @ Research Science Institute (RSI)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Boston
Pure math research


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jenningchen

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Last updated: 2026-03-22