AI Field Engineer - AI Natives

About Us: At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI. In the last few months alone we launched Fireworks Training, partnered with Microsoft Azure Foundry, and published research straight from our production systems. A few examples of what that looks like in practice: Frontier RL is cheaper than the mega-cluster narrative suggests: we ran cross-region rollouts using 98% sparse weight deltas and published what we learned. ( blog ) Open source agents with frontier advisors: matching frontier performance through training and harness engineering. ( blog ) The fine-tuning bottleneck is not the algorithm: integration friction and iteration speed are what actually stall teams; we documented the patterns across dozens of customer engagements. ( blog) The Role: AI Field Engineers at Fireworks are the technical tip of the spear. You embed with our most ambitious customers and technology partners to turn complex AI problems into production systems, fast. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. You are hands-on-keyboard building POCs, MVPs, and production integrations, while also holding your own in executive-level conversations about architecture, strategy, and business outcomes. You spend most of your time building. You ship code, run benchmarks, debug production issues, and architect deployments. But you also lead discovery conversations, align stakeholders, and translate customer pain points into product improvements that compress the feedback loop from field to roadmap. This is a role for engineers who are comfortable on-site with customers, building the relationships and trust that happen in person, not just over a call. The Segment As a Field Engineer in the AI Native segment you will work with the most innovative AI-native companies building at the frontier, where GenAI is the core product, not a feature, and where Fireworks is the platform they depend on to ship and scale it. These engagements move fast with fewer stakeholders, so you will spend more time in the code and iterate alongside their engineering teams, while still holding executive-level conversations on architecture and strategy. You will embed deeply with a small set of high-velocity accounts where the quality of your engineering is the relationship. What You'll Work On Technical Delivery and Deployment Build end-to-end POCs and MVPs alongside customer engineering teams, working inside their codebases, infrastructure, and constraints. For customers whose core product is built on GenAI, architect the inference foundations that capability depends on, and size deployments so they can scale in their market without infrastructure becoming the bottleneck. Run load tests and establish latency, throughput, and cost baselines against realistic customer traffic profiles, and tune deployments to hit those targets Deploy and validate new model families on inference frameworks (vLLM, SGLang), determining optimal shapes, quantization configs, and serving patterns across workloads. Model Strategy and Fine-Tuning Guide customers on model selection, fine-tuning strategy (SFT, DPO, RFT), and evaluation methodology. Build and run fine-tuning pipelines directly with customers, navigating trade-offs between model families, compute cost, and quality targets. Design and implement evaluation frameworks that measure production-quality metrics, not just benchmark scores. Customer Engage