Member of Technical Staff
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Fireworks AI operates an AI platform for production inference and training of open-source models.
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San Mateo, United States
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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
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About the Role
You will design, build, and operate backend and cloud-native infrastructure for distributed training, inference, and data processing. You will lead technical designs, mentor engineers, optimize infrastructure, integrate platform technologies, and own systems through deployment.
Requirements
- Have 4 years of experience designing, building, and optimizing large-scale backend infrastructure and distributed data systems
- Have 4 years of experience with Python, C++, Go, or TypeScript
- Have 4 years of experience writing technical design documentation and leading cross-functional projects
- Have 3 years of experience developing data processing and API systems, including gRPC or Thrift
- Have 3 years of experience with A/B testing and scientific experimentation
- Have 2 years of experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Have experience with cloud environments including AWS, GCP, or Azure
Responsibilities
- Architect scalable backend infrastructure for distributed training, inference, and data pipelines
- Lead technical design discussions and mentor engineers
- Design and implement efficient, low-latency backend services
- Optimize compute cost, storage lifecycle management, and network performance
- Translate research and product requirements into infrastructure solutions
- Evaluate and integrate Kubernetes, Ray, Kubeflow, and MLFlow
- Own systems from design through deployment with reliability and fault tolerance
Benefits
- Equity
