Member of Technical Staff Systems Infrastructure 2026 PhD New Grad
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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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design, build, and operate infrastructure for large-scale training and inference. You will benchmark and model scheduling, caching, and network performance, identify bottlenecks across the stack, and turn research ideas into resilient production systems.
Requirements
- PhD completed within the last 6 months or expected by December 2026 in a relevant field
- Research background in distributed systems, operating systems, scheduling, storage, networking, architecture, or high-performance computing
- Depth in scheduling and resource management, distributed storage and caching, or datacenter networking
- Systems programming experience in C/C++, Rust, Go, or similar, plus Python proficiency
- Experience building and evaluating real systems
- Systems design and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure systems for training and inference
- Model and measure scheduling, caching, and network performance
- Identify and remove system bottlenecks
- Turn research ideas into production systems
- Collaborate on infrastructure and model design
- Track emerging hardware and systems research