AI Researcher, Fireworks AI

$175-220k

Python

Tensorflow

C++

PyTorch

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Redwood City, CA

Generative AI platform enabling rapid scaling for developers and businesses

Open for applications

Generative AI platform enabling rapid scaling for developers and businesses

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaS

Open for applications

$175-220k

Python

Tensorflow

C++

PyTorch

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Redwood City, CA

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaS

Company mission

To help every organization unleash the full power of artificial intelligence

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Research background in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Physics, or similar field
Experience solving analytical problems using analytic and quantitative approaches
Experience communicating research to audiences with different backgrounds
Experience coding in C/C++, Python, or other similar languages

Desirable

PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field
Research and engineering experience demonstrated via grants, fellowships, patents, internships, work experience, and/or coding competitions
Experience having first-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Experience working with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Jax

What the job involves

As an AI Researcher, you’ll push the boundaries of generative AI, advancing LLMs and multimodal systems through foundational research
Your work will enhance model efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, directly shaping our high-performance AI infrastructure
You'll collaborate with top experts in deep learning, distributed systems, and optimization to bring cutting-edge research into real-world applications
You'll also have the opportunity to shape how some of the world’s leading companies build and deploy AI through the models and tools you help create

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, customisable generative AI models that can be launched privately and securely, rather than the non-private and inflexible models built by larger companies.

After its 2024 Series B round of $52 million, Fireworks.AI has been valued at over $550 million, an impressive sum for a David in a sea of Goliaths. The company plans to use its funding to develop compound AI systems that can orchestrate across multiple single models. 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

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jul 2024

$52m

SERIES B

Mar 2024

$25m

SERIES A

Total funding: $77m

Company HQ

Redwood City, CA

Leadership

Lin Qiao

(CEO)

Previously Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, Tech Lead at Linkedin, Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center and an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Silicon Valley Lab.

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