AI Field Engineer EMEA
Fireworks AI operates an AI platform for production inference and training of open-source models.
Funding history
About Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI provides serverless and dedicated model inference, model deployment, and supervised and reinforcement fine-tuning for developers and enterprises building AI applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build POCs, MVPs, and production integrations with enterprise customers. You will architect and benchmark inference deployments, tune model-serving configurations, and troubleshoot production issues. You will lead technical discovery, manage executive and engineering stakeholders, guide fine-tuning and evaluation strategy, and turn customer feedback into product improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a hands-on customer-facing technical role
- Experience shipping production software in customer environments
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure engineering
- LLM inference, model serving, and fine-tuning workflows
- Cloud infrastructure including AWS, Azure, or GCP
- GPU infrastructure
- Communication skills
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end POCs and MVPs with customer engineering teams
- Architect scalable inference foundations and deployments
- Run load tests and tune deployments for latency, throughput, and cost targets
- Deploy and validate model families using vLLM and SGLang
- Guide model selection, fine-tuning strategy, and evaluation methodology
- Build fine-tuning pipelines and evaluation frameworks
- Lead discovery conversations and manage technical customer relationships
- Embed on-site with customer teams
- Translate customer feedback into product proposals and roadmap input
- Document repeatable deployment patterns