Fireworks AI
Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Mateo
Employer listed it 7 months ago · Added today
Been open since 7 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$200,000–$290,000
Location
Hybrid · San Mateo
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Mateo, New York, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Mateo, New York, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
About Us:
Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
The Role:
You’ll be a core builder of the backend systems that power Fireworks:
Our main web application
Model and fine-tuning job orchestration
Billing and enterprise features
Accounts, org management, access controls
Policy enforcement and governance
APIs and developer tooling
And many other cool things!
This is platform engineering with product impact. Your systems will directly shape how customers build on top of AI. You’ll work closely with product, frontend, infra, and GTM to ship end-to-end features — not just tickets.
What You’ll Do
Design and build scalable backend services
Own major product surfaces from architecture to production
Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience
Work directly with customers to understand pain points
Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness
Use AI tooling aggressively — we expect you to automate yourself
You Might Be a Fit If
You like building real products, not just infrastructure for infrastructure’s sake
You enjoy driving initiatives across teams to get things done
You think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and business impact
You care about developer experience and clean abstractions
Requirements
- ·Comfortable collaborating with both humans and AI systems (Yes, We’re Serious)
- ·5+ years of experience helping humans solve real problems
- ·2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models
- ·Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
- ·Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Fireworks AI, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 23h ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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