Member of Technical Staff, LLM Infrastructure

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer on our AI Infrastructure team, you will help design the core systems that power Fireworks AI’s generative AI platform. You will help build infrastructure and tools that ensure the reliability, performance, quality, and availability of our AI system.

• Contribute to the design and development of scalable backend infrastructure that supports distributed training, inference, and data pipelines
• Build and maintain core backend services such as LLM CI/CD pipeline, control plane, and model serving systems
• Support performance optimization, cost efficiency, and reliability improvements across compute, storage, and networking layers
• Building frameworks and safeguards to ensure Fireworks AI has the best model quality in the industry
• Collaborate with performance, training, and product teams to translate research and product needs into infrastructure solutions

What they're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 3 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on infrastructure or machine learning systems
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or a similar language
• Proven experience in ML infrastructure and tooling (e.g., PyTorch, MLflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Basic understanding of LLM knowledge (e.g., context length, disaggregated prefill, KV cache memory estimation, etc)

Tech stack

• PyTorch
• Python
• Go
• MLflow
• Kubernetes
• vLLM