fireworks ai

This role is designed for new graduates who are eager to work on real-world AI systems in production from day one. As a Member of Technical Staff at Fireworks, you will write and deploy code that operates on one of the world's most active inference platforms, serving hundreds of models to developers and enterprises at a massive scale. You will be matched to a team based on your strengths and interests, with potential work spanning inference and performance, model training and fine-tuning, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, developer platform and APIs, or product and full-stack application engineering. You will be supported by a senior engineer mentor and a structured ramp-up program, starting with well-scoped problems and progressing to owning features and systems independently. The company emphasizes a fast-paced environment with a high bar and a commitment to employee development.

Fireworks is seeking PhD graduates to join their Systems Infrastructure team. This role is designed for individuals finishing their PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field, who are interested in applying their research to large-scale, real-world AI infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing and building the core systems that power Fireworks, including schedulers, storage systems, and networks, to ensure efficient operation of tens of thousands of accelerators and low inference latency. You will tackle complex problems such as optimizing job placement on heterogeneous hardware, high-speed data movement for model weights, and maintaining saturated datacenter networks. You will be paired with a senior engineer mentor and work on impactful projects from day one, with start dates flexible around thesis defense.

Fireworks is seeking a Member of Technical Staff on the Research team, designed for PhD candidates who want their work to reach production. This role involves pushing the boundaries of generative AI, advancing LLMs and multimodal systems through foundational research. You will enhance model efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, directly shaping high-performance AI infrastructure. You will be paired with a senior researcher as a mentor and given a real research problem from day one, collaborating with top experts in deep learning, distributed systems, and optimization. The work you contribute will be deployed by leading companies, often within weeks.

Fireworks is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their EMEA field team. This role involves building on top of one of the world's largest inference platforms, spanning capabilities on inference and serving, tooling for fine-tuning and post-training of LLMs, and developing product features specific to the region. The ideal candidate is an excellent software engineer who prefers building product, with a strong emphasis on first principles thinking and the ability to reason about unfamiliar problems from the ground up. This is a flexible role designed for exceptional builders with 3 to 10 years of experience.

Fireworks is seeking its first dedicated Compensation Partner to translate the company's compensation philosophy into practical application. This role will build the essential systems and processes for benchmarking, reviewing, and adjusting compensation as the organization grows rapidly. The Compensation Partner will be responsible for hands-on execution, including market research, managing review cycles, ensuring data accuracy, and serving as the primary resource for compensation-related inquiries from HRBPs and leaders. Additionally, this role will collaborate closely with Finance to develop and refine the company's equity framework, bringing a compensation perspective to financial planning.

Fireworks AI is seeking an AI Deployment Strategist to serve as the technical backbone for customer relationships on their fast inference platform. This hybrid technical and commercial role involves bridging customer engineering teams with Fireworks' product, engineering, and applied AI teams to ensure successful onboarding, deep technical adoption, and long-term account health for companies running large-scale production AI workloads. You will be responsible for understanding customer needs, defining success criteria, managing the end-to-end relationship from technical evaluation through production, and acting as a "product manager for the customer's problem."

Fireworks is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Indirect Tax to lead and manage the organization’s indirect tax function. This role will be responsible for indirect tax compliance, reporting, planning, audits, and risk management, while serving as a key advisor to Finance, Accounting, Legal, Operations, and other business stakeholders. The successful candidate will bring strong technical expertise in indirect taxation, excellent judgment, and the ability to translate complex tax requirements into practical business solutions. This role is well suited to a tax professional who can operate strategically while maintaining strong oversight of day-to-day compliance and execution.

Fireworks is seeking an Applied Machine Learning Engineer for the EMEA region. In this role, you will be the technical owner of customer engagements, embedding within client teams to understand their specific needs and challenges. You will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of a customer's deployment on the Fireworks platform, from initial scoping and model selection to ensuring production readiness, performance, and cost-efficiency. This position emphasizes first principles thinking and requires a deep understanding of software engineering, machine learning techniques, and infrastructure optimization.

Fireworks is seeking a Developer Advocate to be the voice of their specialized intelligence platform for developers. In this role, you will be responsible for making Fireworks the go-to platform for building, fine-tuning, and serving frontier open models in production. This position requires a dual focus: you must be a hands-on engineer who ships code and understands technical nuances, and a public technical communicator who can clearly articulate complex topics through writing, speaking, and community engagement. You will be at the forefront of a rapidly evolving field, consistently staying ahead of new model releases and making it look repeatable rather than heroic. As one of the first advocates on the team, you will help set the standards for content, launch responses, and team presence.

Fireworks is seeking a Product Manager to focus on their core inference product and general platform. This role is central to enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. You will be responsible for setting strategy, writing product specifications, engaging directly with customers running production traffic, and collaborating across inference, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams to deliver significant customer impact. Example challenges include optimizing rate limits and preventing fraudulent usage while maintaining a smooth experience for legitimate users.

Fireworks is seeking a Product Manager to focus on their AI training platform. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the strategy, defining product specifications, and directly engaging with customers to understand their real-world tuning challenges. You will collaborate closely with the training, research, and inference teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance customer AI development. Example initiatives include driving growth in self-serve training usage and improving the speed and ease of training for enterprise clients.

Fireworks AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff focused on Reliability Engineering to ensure the dependable operation of their AI platform. This role involves working across cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and product teams to guarantee seamless integration, graceful failure handling, and robust performance under load. You will be instrumental in defining reliability standards, owning the reliability toolchain, and ensuring a positive customer experience by addressing failures that span across systems. The position requires a proactive approach to incident management, a commitment to reducing operational toil through automation, and strong collaboration with various engineering teams.

Fireworks AI is seeking a high-ownership sales operator to drive sourced pipeline and revenue through the Microsoft Azure channel. This quota-carrying, field-facing role involves mapping Microsoft's ISV and enterprise field organization, activating co-sell motions with key personnel, and building repeatable sales plays to guide customers to Fireworks AI via Azure Foundry. You will own the forecast and the number, with significant influence over how Fireworks engages Microsoft's field teams and builds a scalable co-sell motion. This is an opportunity for someone who thrives on creating from scratch and is accountable to achieving targets in a dynamic environment.

Fireworks is seeking a Product Designer passionate about transforming complex AI infrastructure into intuitive developer experiences. This role involves owning the design process end-to-end, from model deployment to AI agent creation on the Fireworks platform. The focus is on simplifying powerful technologies, requiring close collaboration with engineers and PMs who have a deep understanding of systems. The ideal candidate will be excited about console UIs, API ergonomics, and enhancing the developer's journey to first inference.

Enterprise Foundations is responsible for building the core capabilities that large enterprises require to operate their business on the Fireworks platform. This involves addressing complex needs related to organizational structure, user access control, usage metering, billing, data security, and deployment within customer-owned cloud environments. The role offers end-to-end ownership of features, starting from customer conversations, evolving into changes in core data models and APIs, and extending through the control plane, training and inference stacks, SDK, CLI, and console. The work is foundational, often involving new primitives that impact other teams' code and must be rolled out to production without disruption. This position is closely tied to revenue, with requirements stemming directly from enterprise deals and customer interactions, offering a unique opportunity to influence product direction and build solutions for scaled companies.

Fireworks is seeking a GTM Engineer to design, operate, and enhance the systems that drive our revenue engine. This role bridges GTM systems architecture and field execution, ensuring our tools and automations boost productivity for sales and marketing teams. You will collaborate closely with sellers, marketers, and GTM leadership to ensure our systems provide crucial signals, reduce manual tasks, and accelerate team velocity. The ideal candidate is passionate about inventing the future of sales platforms and applying world-class AI to go-to-market execution.

Fireworks is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for its Research team to push the boundaries of generative AI. This role involves advancing LLMs and multimodal systems through foundational research, focusing on enhancing model efficiency, accuracy, and scalability to shape high-performance AI infrastructure. You will collaborate with experts in deep learning, distributed systems, and optimization to translate cutting-edge research into practical applications and influence how leading companies build and deploy AI.

Fireworks is seeking a product-minded engineer to join their team and own the surfaces that make their AI platform, Nexus, a reality. Nexus is a drop-in platform designed to help engineering organizations reduce AI spend by routing workloads to high-performing open models. This role involves owning features end-to-end, from understanding problems and designing solutions to shipping and observing developer usage. You will be responsible for the intelligent router, cost-observability and enterprise-control layers, integrations, and core platform components like inference APIs and fine-tuning workflows. This is a high-autonomy individual contributor role on a small team, offering significant leverage and direct impact on a product that ships to production at scale.

Fireworks is seeking a Training Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and optimize the infrastructure that powers large-scale model training operations. This role is crucial for developing high-performance AI training infrastructure, requiring collaboration with AI researchers and engineers to create robust training pipelines, optimize distributed training workloads, and ensure reliable model development. The position offers the opportunity to solve hard problems at the forefront of AI infrastructure, build what's next with bleeding-edge technology, and have a direct impact on the future of AI within a fast-growing, passionate team.

As an Applied Machine Learning Engineer, you will serve as a vital bridge between cutting-edge AI research and practical, real-world applications. Your work will focus on developing, fine-tuning, and operationalizing machine learning models that drive business value and enhance user experiences. This is a hands-on engineering role that combines deep technical expertise with a strong customer focus to deliver scalable AI solutions.