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Fireworks AI

AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships

AI summary of the role

Technical owner of Fireworks' most strategic partnerships (e.g., Microsoft), driving co-sell motions, building reference architectures and POCs, and making Fireworks the default inference and fine-tuning layer in partner AI architectures.

What you’ll do

  • Lead co-sell technical motions with strategic partners: joint reference architectures, integration patterns, and shared POCs.
  • Build end-to-end POCs and MVPs inside partner codebases and infrastructure.
  • Run load tests and tune deployments to meet latency, throughput, and cost baselines.
  • Guide customers on model selection, fine-tuning strategy (SFT, DPO, RFT), and evaluation methodology.

What you’ll bring

  • 3+ years in pre-sales, partner engineering, forward-deployed, or technical consulting.
  • Strong Python skills and experience shipping production code in customer environments.
  • Hands-on fluency with LLM inference: latency/throughput tradeoffs, batching, quantization, structured outputs, function calling.
  • Real fine-tuning experience (LoRA minimum; RFT a plus).

Technologies

Python · Kubernetes · vLLM · SGLang · TensorRT-LLM · Azure Foundry · Azure OpenAI Service · Azure ML · AKS · Entra/RBAC · LoRA · RFT

About Fireworks AI

Inference cloud for open-source generative AI models with fine-tuning, RL, and evals; powers production AI for Cursor, Notion, Uber, DoorDash.

Series C

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

suggests: we ran cross-region rollouts using 98% sparse weight deltas and published what we learned. (blog) Open source agents with frontier advisors: matching frontier performance through training and harness engineering. (blog) The fine-tuning bottleneck is not the algorithm: integration friction and iteration speed are what actually stall teams; we documented the patterns across dozens of customer engagements. (blog) The Role As an AI Field Engineer for Strategic Partnerships, you will be one of the technical owners of Fireworks' most strategic partnership. You’ll work closely with Strategic Partner field teams, Partner-aligned ISVs, and the SIs that run enterprise AI transformation programs to make Fireworks the default inference and fine-tuning layer in every Partner AI architecture. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, partner development, and customer delivery.
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