Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI

Software Engineer, LLM Infrastructure

New York, NY; San Mateo, CA

Sponsorship not specified$175k-$220kDetected 7 days ago
PythonGoBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDMachine LearningPyTorchData EngineeringLLMsMLOpsResearch

About the role

  • Our mission is to make Fireworks AI the most reliable and user friendly generative AI platform in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and development of scalable backend infrastructure that supports distributed training, inference, and data pipelines
  • Build and maintain core backend services such as LLM CI/CD pipeline, control plane, and model serving systems
  • Support performance optimization, cost efficiency, and reliability improvements across compute, storage, and networking layers
  • Building frameworks and safeguards to ensure Fireworks AI has the best model quality in the industry
  • Collaborate with performance, training, and product teams to translate research and product needs into infrastructure solutions
  • Build What's Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
  • Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • Proven experience in ML infrastructure and tooling (e.g., PyTorch, MLflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, Kubernetes, etc.).

Nice to have

  • Experience with open source inference engine like vLLM, Sglang, or TRT-LLM
  • Contributions to open-source infrastructure or ML projects
  • Why Fireworks AI?
  • Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
  • Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI-no bureaucracy, just results.
  • Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer.
  • We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.

Compensation

  • $175,000 - $220,000 USD

Benefits

  • 3 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on infrastructure or machine learning systems
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on infrastructure or machine learning systems
  • Range (Plus Equity)

Company info

  • 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 Role:
  • As a Software Engineer on our AI Infrastructure team, you will help design the core systems that power Fireworks AI's generative AI platform. You will help build infrastructure and tools that ensure the reliability, performance, quality, and availability of our AI system.
  • Our mission is to make Fireworks AI the most reliable and user friendly generative AI platform in the world. You will partner closely with our cloud infrastructure team, product team, and performance team to deliver infrastructure that bridges the gap between our customer and the ultra-performant proprietary Fireworks inference engine.
  • 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.
  • As a Software Engineer on our AI Infrastructure team, you will help design the core systems that power Fireworks AI's generative AI platform.
  • You will help build infrastructure and tools that ensure the reliability, performance, quality, and availability of our AI system.
  • You will partner closely with our cloud infrastructure team, product team, and performance team to deliver infrastructure that bridges the gap between our customer and the ultra-performant proprietary Fireworks inference engine.
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