AI Forward Deployed Engineer EMEA
Fireworks AI4 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Own the technical outcomes of customer deployments from architecture through production.
- Design, scope, and run proof-of-value pilots in customer environments with defined success criteria.
- Lead technical scoping for complex pre-signature deals and carry the scoped solutions through delivery.
- Diagnose and resolve capacity, performance, integration, and model-selection issues.
- Guide customers on model selection, deployment tiers, and optimization approaches such as quantization, speculative decoding, and fine-tuning handoffs.
- Provide structured, prioritized customer feedback to product and engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of software engineering experience with depth in backend systems and infrastructure.
- Strong Python skills and proficiency in at least one systems language, with the ability to ship in unfamiliar codebases and customer environments.
- Experience using coding agents and AI tooling as a core part of engineering work, with judgment about when to trust their output.
- Working knowledge of generative AI inference, serving, and tradeoffs across models and deployment options.
- Ability to break down novel problems using first-principles and critical thinking, own ambiguous technical problems under time pressure, and drive them to resolution.
- Strong communication skills with senior technical stakeholders and genuine interest in customer-facing work.
- Preferred: founder or founding engineer experience, particularly as a technical co-founder or CTO.
- Preferred: experience with GPU infrastructure, distributed serving, performance engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or technical professional services.
- Preferred: experience in a startup or fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Work on challenging AI infrastructure problems involving low-latency inference and scalable model serving.
- Build technology affecting how businesses and developers use AI globally.
- Join a fast-growing team with substantial ownership and direct impact.
- Collaborate with engineers and AI researchers in a curiosity-driven environment.
- Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.
About Fireworks AI
Fireworks is the fastest way to build, tune, and scale AI on open models. Ship production-ready AI in seconds on our globally distributed cloud infrastructure, optimized for your use case. Fireworks powers production workloads at companies like Uber, Doordash, Notion, and Cursor—delivering 15× faster speed, 4× lower latency, and 4× more concurrency than closed models.