AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships
Core
Technical owner of Fireworks' strategic partnerships, building reference architectures, running benchmarks, and co-developing POCs to make Fireworks the default inference layer in partner AI architectures.
Role type
Senior IC AI Field Engineer (Strategic Partnerships)
Builds
Reference architectures, joint POCs/MVPs, and production-grade inference deployments for strategic partners and ISVs.
Domain
Generative AI infrastructure, LLM inference, and enterprise cloud partnerships.
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, Kubernetes, LLM inference optimization (latency/throughput/quantization), fine-tuning (LoRA, SFT, DPO), Azure AI stack (Foundry, OpenAI Service, AKS, Entra/RBAC), model evaluation frameworks.
Preferred skills
Inference serving frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM), agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), hyperscaler/AI-native cloud experience, technical blog writing, GenAI POC-to-production track record.
Technologies
vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Azure Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure ML, AKS, Entra/RBAC, LangChain, LlamaIndex.
Responsibilities
Lead co-sell motions with strategic partners; build end-to-end POCs inside partner codebases; run load tests and tune deployments; guide customers on model selection and fine-tuning strategies; surface partner-driven product gaps to engineering.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
