Member of Technical Staff, Fireworks AI
Applied Research
5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Generative AI platform enabling rapid scaling for developers and businesses
Open for applications
Generative AI platform enabling rapid scaling for developers and businesses
101-200 employees
Open for applications
5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help every organization unleash the full power of artificial intelligence.
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Company mission
To help every organization unleash the full power of artificial intelligence.
Our take
Whilst the development of generative AI is thought to be the reserve of large companies like Open AI, smaller startups such as Firework AI are making this technology easier to access and develop for smaller companies wanting to handle specific business needs using AI. As an open-source model API, it has one of the largest user bases - with over 12,000 users leveraging Fireworks AI’s software.
Though lacking the brand name recognition of generative AI developers like Google and Meta, Fireworks AI differentiates itself in a market crowded with large competitors through its unique approach to deploying its software. It creates smaller, production-grade, customizable generative AI models that can be launched privately and securely, rather than the non-private and inflexible models built by larger companies.
After its 2025 Series C round of $250M, Fireworks AI has been valued at over $4B, an impressive sum for a David in a sea of Goliaths. The company plans to use its funding to reshape AI infrastructure as well as expand globally. It will be interesting to see how the company evolves with its potentially disruptive business approach to generative AI.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2025
$230m
SERIES C
Jul 2024
$52m
SERIES B
Total funding: $307m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Lin Qiao
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, a Tech Lead at Linkedin, a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center and an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Silicon Valley Lab.
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