AI Engineer

AI Field Engineer - AI Natives | Fireworks AI

Role Summary

Fireworks AI is hiring senior AI Field Engineers to help AI-native customers adopt and scale its generative AI platform. This role combines sales engineering with forward-deployed engineering and owns technical discovery, workshops, proof-of-concepts, integration, and performance work.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, demos, POCs, POVs, and customer workshops.

• Integrate the Fireworks platform into customer AI/ML systems.

• Partner with customers on architecture, performance engineering, and production deployment.

• Translate business requirements into practical AI solutions and maintain strong client relationships.

• Work cross-functionally with sales, product, and engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• 5-10 years of relevant experience; senior individual contributor ready to lead.

• Experience at a top-tier AI-native company.

• Customer-facing pre-sales experience as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, TAM, Engineering Manager, or Product Manager.

• Strong AI/ML depth, including fine-tuned LLMs, generative AI infrastructure, or hyperscaler AI services.

• Demonstrated success building and maintaining production systems.

• Excellent client management and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes, ML engineering, and product thinking.

• Experience with complex enterprise AI deployments.

Employment Details

• Full-time; 8-10 openings.

• Remote, with New York and San Francisco candidates preferred.

• Regular enterprise customer travel may be required.

• Base salary: $176,000-$228,000.

• OTE: $220,000-$285,000.