Applied Machine Learning Engineer, EMEA

The role

You will be the technical owner of customer engagements, embedding with accounts to own the model, serving path, integration, and performance. You will take deployments from scoping through production to deliver specialized intelligence.

What you will do

• Take customer deployments from scoping through production as the single accountable technical owner.
• Work directly inside customer teams to understand domain, data, and constraints.
• Run fine-tuning and post-training work from data to model serving in production.
• Drive serving performance and cost on Fireworks through model choice and inference optimization.
• Assess what is achievable before committing to scope.
• Feed customer needs back to product and engineering.

Required qualifications

• Spikes in two or all three areas: Software engineering, Machine learning, or Infrastructure and performance.
• For the ML spike: formal training (PhD, PhD in progress, or a strong MSc) and experience post-training LLMs specifically.
• For the infrastructure spike: experience with GPU infrastructure, distributed serving, or inference engines.
• Founder or founding engineer experience.
• Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment.

About the company

Fireworks is a platform for specialized intelligence that enables companies to build, train, and serve AI models. It is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion.