Support Engineer

San Mateo, CA

About the role

About Us:

At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.

Role Description:

We’re looking for a Technical Support & Community Engineer to be the frontline connection between our platform and its users. In this role, you’ll handle technical support requests, manage our developer community (including Discord), and help drive customer satisfaction by resolving issues quickly and effectively. You’ll play a key part in identifying sales and product opportunities, addressing customer issues and inquiries, and collating feedback for our product and engineering teams. This role blends technical troubleshooting with community management and is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, user-facing environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own and drive resolution for customer support requests, including managing the Discord community, handling customer communication around active issues and incidents, and responding to inquiries in a timely, helpful manner.
  • Identify and surface sales, partnership, and product opportunities discovered through support conversations when appropriate.
  • Investigate and troubleshoot issues when reported by customers by looking into logs and other internal tooling.
  • Triaging product issues to the product and engineering team.
  • Contributing to a knowledge base for the broader support team.
  • Coordinate access to HIPAA, GDPR and other compliance-related documentation as needed.
  • Proactively explore and implement process improvements, including opportunities for automation using AI tools.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of experience in a forward-deployed or customer-facing technical role.
  • Basic Python and scripting experience.
  • Strong passion in the AI field and basic knowledge of how modern AIs are built.
  • Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand, investigate, and resolve customer issues.
  • Experience performing technical troubleshooting, including collecting debugging information and triaging problems.
  • Excellent communication skills and high degree of customer empathy.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with evolving processes and responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience supporting AI/ML platforms
  • Prior experience in community management (e.g., Discord, GitHub, or forums)

Total compensation for this role also includes meaningful equity in a fast-growing startup, along with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Base salary is determined by a range of factors including individual qualifications, experience, skills, interview performance, market data, and work location. The listed salary range is intended as a guideline and may be adjusted.

Base Pay Range (Plus Equity)$140,000$160,000 USD

Why Fireworks AI?

  • Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
  • Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
  • Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
  • Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.

Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.

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.

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Job details

Salary

$70,000 - $130,000

Location

San Mateo, CA

Experience

2+ years

Company

NameFireworks AI
Industryai, software_development, devtools, data, b2b, api_sdk
Team Size211

Funding

Total raised

$327M

Last stage

Series C

Investors

Sequoia Capital
Benchmark
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Index Ventures
NVIDIA

Founders

BC

Benny Chen

Co-Founder

Benny Yufei Chen

Benny Yufei Chen

Co-Founder

LinkedIn
Lin Qiao

Lin Qiao

CEO and cofounder

LinkedIn
DD

Dmytro Dzhulgakov

CTO, Co-Founder

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.