AI Field Engineer, EMEA
Fireworks AI2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end POCs, MVPs, production integrations, and inference foundations alongside customer engineering teams.
- Architect and size scalable model deployments, run load tests, establish latency, throughput, and cost baselines, and tune serving configurations.
- Deploy and validate model families using inference frameworks while optimizing model shapes, quantization, and serving patterns.
- Guide model selection, fine-tuning strategy, and evaluation methodology, and build fine-tuning and production-quality evaluation pipelines.
- Lead customer discovery, technical solution design, stakeholder alignment, and the technical relationship through production deployment.
- Work on-site with customers and translate recurring pain points into product proposals, tooling, documentation, and roadmap feedback.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on, customer-facing technical experience in roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Solutions Architect, ML Engineer with field exposure, or technical founder.
- Demonstrated ability to build and ship production software within customer environments.
- Strong Python skills and familiarity with Kubernetes and infrastructure engineering.
- Working knowledge of LLM inference, model serving, and fine-tuning workflows, with SFT required and DPO/RFT preferred.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and deploying models on GPU infrastructure.
- Ability to conduct discovery conversations, present to executives, and troubleshoot technical issues with ML engineers.
- Preferred: 10+ years in technical field or engineering roles.
- Preferred: experience with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, hyperscaler AI platforms, agentic systems, tool-use chains, or AI-native developer toolchains.
Categories
Forward DeployedML Engineering
About Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI builds a generative AI platform for developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune, and serve open models for production use across text, image, audio, embeddings, and multimodal workloads. It offers managed inference and tooling via APIs on globally distributed infrastructure, with a usage-based SaaS model. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Fireworks AI is a privately held, Series D company.