
Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. https://fireworks.ai/careers

Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. https://fireworks.ai/careers
What they do: Developer-focused generative AI inference and fine-tuning platform
Product strengths: Serverless & dedicated GPU deployments, low-latency/high-throughput inference (FireAttention), fine-tuning (FireOptimizer)
Founders: Lin Qiao (Co-founder & CEO), Dmytro Ivchenko (Co-founder)
Funding signal: Has raised multiple rounds including a reported $52M Series B
Production deployment and optimization of open-source generative models (inference performance, cost, scalability, and model lifecycle).
Software Development
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Reported $52M Series B in 2024
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Reported $25M raised as of Mar 26, 2024 (prior total)
“Benchmark; Sequoia Capital; Lightspeed Venture Partners; Index Ventures; Evantic; Databricks Ventures; named individual backers including Frank Slootman, Sheryl Sandberg, Howie Liu, Alexandr Wang”
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About Us At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.
The Applied Researcher role is designed for engineers who love working across ML, systems, and real-world products, and thrive on working directly with customers to bring advanced models into production.
About The Role As an Applied Researcher, you will sit at the intersection of ML research, systems engineering, and customer-facing problem solving. You’ll work hands-on with customers and customer data to tune, evaluate and deploy models using various techniques such as SFT / DPO / RL, to help customers build competitive models using their unique data tailored to their unique products.
You will be the technical bridge between customer needs, customer data, and our tuning and serving infrastructure, helping shape the future of applied AI.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Why Fireworks AI?
Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.
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