AI Field Engineer
US$200,000 – US$260,000 / yr base salary
Posted 11 Jun 2026
Advertised as “AI Field Engineer - Strategic Partnerships”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$200,000 – US$260,000 / yr |
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About Us:
Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
In the last few months alone we launched Fireworks Training, partnered with Microsoft Azure Foundry, and published research straight from our production systems. A few examples of what that looks like in practice:
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Frontier RL is cheaper than the mega-cluster narrative suggests: we ran cross-region rollouts using 98% sparse weight deltas and published what we learned. (blog)
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Open source agents with frontier advisors: matching frontier performance through training and harness engineering. (blog)
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The fine-tuning bottleneck is not the algorithm: integration friction and iteration speed are what actually stall teams; we documented the patterns across dozens of customer engagements. (blog)
The Role
As an AI Field Engineer for Strategic Partnerships, you will be one of the technical owners of Fireworks' most strategic partnership. You’ll work closely with Strategic Partner field teams, Partner-aligned ISVs, and the SIs that run enterprise AI transformation programs to make Fireworks the default inference and fine-tuning layer in every Partner AI architecture. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, partner development, and customer delivery. You build reference architectures, run benchmarks, debug production integrations, and co-develop POCs — all while holding your own in executive-level conversations about strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes.
You spend most of your time building and enabling. You ship code, run joint POCs with Partner field teams, and architect deployments that span Strategic Partners and Fireworks. But you also lead discovery conversations, align partner stakeholders, and translate field signals into product improvements that compress the feedback loop from partner to roadmap.