Member of Technical Staff, Systems Infrastructure (2026 PhD New Grad)
Fireworks·San Mateo·Remote·Posted 8 September 2026
About the role
ABOUT US: 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, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI. THE ROLE: This role is designed for systems researchers finishing their PhD who want to see their ideas run on real fleets at real scale. As a Member of Technical Staff on the Systems Infrastructure team, you'll design and build the substrate underneath Fireworks — the schedulers, storage systems, and networks that keep tens of thousands of accelerators busy and inference latency low. The problems here are the ones your dissertation probably touched: how to place compute-intensive jobs across heterogeneous hardware without stranding capacity, how to move model…
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