Member of Technical Staff, ResearchActive$200K–$350K
The opportunity
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,…
What you'll do
Conduct foundational research to advance the capabilities, efficiency, and: reliability of LLMs and multimodal systems
Design, implement, and evaluate novel model architectures, training methods, and optimization techniques
Collaborate with engineering teams to transition research prototypes into production-grade systems
Analyze empirical results, identify performance bottlenecks, and iterate quickly to improve model quality
Contribute to internal research strategy by identifying high-impact opportunities and emerging trends in AI
Research background in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Physics, or similar field
What they're looking for
- 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
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field
