Fireworks AI
AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships
$200K–$260K
San Mateo +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 11, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo
New York - Experience
- 3+ years required; 5+ years preferred for technical field or engineering roles owning a technical relationship with a hyperscaler or major SI.
About the job
Leads technical delivery for strategic partnerships by building AI reference architectures, prototypes, and production integrations, while advising on model selection, fine-tuning, and deployment performance.
What you'll do
- Build partner-led reference architectures, POCs, and MVPs; benchmark and tune deployments for latency, throughput, and cost.
- Advise customers on model selection, fine-tuning, and evaluation; develop and run fine-tuning pipelines.
- Relay partner feedback to product teams and provide technical content and partnership pipeline updates.
What they ask for
- 3+ years in pre-sales, partner engineering, forward-deployed, or technical consulting.
- Has built production software with customers and shipped code in another organization’s production environment.
- Strong Python skills; familiarity with Kubernetes and infrastructure engineering.
- Hands-on LLM inference fluency, fine-tuning experience (LoRA minimum), and deep familiarity with Azure AI stack.
Nice to have
- 5+ years in technical field or engineering roles owning a technical relationship with a hyperscaler or major SI.
- Experience with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, agentic frameworks, or model evaluation.
Pay
$200,000 - $260,000 USD (total pay)
Tools
Python, Kubernetes, Azure Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure ML, AKS, vLLM, SGLang
AI focus
Deploy and optimize AI inference; guide model selection, fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, RFT), and production evaluation.
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