AI Field Engineer - Enterprise
San Mateo, CAHybrid
$200,000–$260,000
View job →FDE jobs at Fireworks AI
Inference and training infrastructure for open-weight AI models, with fine-tuning, reinforcement fine-tuning, and low-latency production serving for developers and enterprises.
Growth (Series B–C) · About 51–200 people · AI Infra
5 postings1 metromedian of posted base ranges $230,000
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How Fireworks AI describes FDE work
Fireworks AI · US average
Pre-sales
Evaluation or proposal work before a deal
100% · avg 24%
Well above average
Remote
Postings that allow remote work
0% · avg 28%
Well below average
Customer contact
Work done for people outside the company
100% · avg 86%
Above average
Seniority
Senior-level responsibility or above
100% · avg 94%
Above average
Production code
Postings that involve writing production code
80% · avg 80%
About average
Travel
How often postings mention travel
40% · avg 40%
About average
0%50%100%
Fireworks AI’s postings involve pre-sales far more often than the US average (100% vs 24%) and allow remote work less often (0% vs 28%).
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Pay at Fireworks AI
Across 5 posted ranges, Fireworks AI’s median sits above $188,000 for senior FDE postings in the US.
Posted base ranges in annual US dollars, from postings that state both ends, each counted at the middle of its range. Bonus, commission and equity are not counted. See how posted pay differs by level, location and travel →
AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships
San Mateo, CAHybrid
$200,000–$260,000
View job →AI Field Engineer - AI Natives
San Mateo, CAHybrid
$200,000–$260,000
View job →Member of Technical Staff, Applied Machine Learning Engineer
San Mateo, CAHybrid
$170,000–$240,000
View job →$165,000–$220,000
View job →4 of 5 build what the customer runs.
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Fireworks AI's FDE roles connect inference and training infrastructure to enterprise, partnership, and AI-native customer work.
Fireworks AI's current roles include AI Field Engineer positions for Enterprise, Strategic Partnerships, and AI Natives, plus AI Deployment Strategist and applied machine learning work. The segment changes the customer motion, so ask how it changes the technical work and success measures.
The company describes real-time inference, model optimization, and deployment at scale. A candidate should connect model behavior and serving constraints to a customer's production objective, then explain the tradeoff to technical and commercial partners. The current FDE sample is hybrid in the San Mateo area.
Ask which customer segment the role serves, how much work is evaluation or pre-sales versus production delivery, what travel means in practice, and which model-serving or data systems the engineer owns. See the FDE compensation page.
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