AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships
Core
Technical owner of Fireworks' most strategic partnership, building reference architectures, running benchmarks, and co-developing POCs to make Fireworks the default inference and fine-tuning layer in partner AI architectures.
Role type
Senior IC AI Field Engineer (Strategic Partnerships)
Builds
Joint reference architectures, end-to-end POCs/MVPs, and production deployments spanning Strategic Partners and Fireworks.
Domain
Enterprise AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Large Language Model (LLM) Inference & Fine-tuning
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | client delivery
Required skills
Python, Kubernetes, LLM inference optimization (latency/throughput/quantization), fine-tuning (LoRA, SFT, DPO, RFT), Azure AI stack (Foundry, OpenAI Service, AKS, Entra/RBAC), pre-sales/technical consulting
Preferred skills
Inference serving frameworks (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM), hyperscaler/AI-native cloud experience, agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), model evaluation, GenAI POC to production track record
Technologies
vLLM, SGLang, Azure Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure ML, AKS, Entra/RBAC, LoRA, LangChain, LlamaIndex
Responsibilities
Lead co-sell motions with Strategic Partners; build end-to-end POCs and MVPs inside partner codebases; run load tests and tune deployments for latency/throughput/cost; guide customers on model selection and fine-tuning strategies; surface partner-driven product gaps to engineering; ship external technical content (reference architectures, guides).
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic account ownership