# Member of Technical Staff, Systems Infrastructure (2026 PhD New Grad) at Fireworks

- Company: Fireworks
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Location: San Mateo · Remote · New York
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $200K–230K
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Skills: Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fireworks/ad58a098-ef75-4a4b-8475-55c2653213ef

## Description

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 weights and KV cache fast enough that they never become the bottleneck, and how to keep a datacenter network saturated with collective traffic without collapsing tail latency. The difference is that here you get a production fleet as your testbed and your work ships.



You'll be paired with a senior engineer as a mentor and given a real problem from day one. Start dates are flexible around thesis defen

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