People Partner, Engineering & Product

The role

A People Partner will partner with Engineering and Product leadership. You will serve as an advisor to leaders across Infrastructure, Inference, Applied Research, Applied AI, Product Engineering, and Product Management.

What you will do

• Serve as an embedded, trusted advisor to Eng and Product leadership.
• Partner with leaders and Recruiting to protect the talent bar.
• Work with senior leadership to shape how to develop and enable managers.
• Shape performance and growth approaches for technical teams.
• Equip leaders to hire well, set expectations, give feedback, and navigate change.
• Use headcount, performance, attrition, and engagement data to identify talent needs and flight risks.
• Manage employee relations with sound judgment.

Required qualifications

• 5–8 years of progressive HR experience.
• Meaningful time as an HRBP or People Partner supporting engineering, product, or R&D organizations.
• Fluency in how technical orgs operate.
• Experience partnering with all levels of management, from VP+ leaders to first-time managers.
• Demonstrated experience coaching and developing managers directly and often.
• Strong judgment in employee relations.
• A highly analytical, first-principles mindset.
• Familiarity with compensation and leveling for technical talent, including equity and competitive market dynamics.

Nice to have

• Ideally in a high-growth tech or AI environment

About the company

Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion that provides a platform for specialized intelligence. The company enables companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products.