# Member of Technical Staff, Research at Fireworks

- Company: Fireworks
- What the company does: Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized intelligence. Backed by Bessemer, Index and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://fireworks.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $210K to $320K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fireworks/ee35bd97-43f9-4574-8ab7-81debd5d3d1a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fireworks-member-of-technical-staff-research/

## About the role

As a Member of Technical Staff on the Research team, you’ll push the boundaries of generative AI, advancing LLMs and multimodal systems through foundational research. Your work will enhance model efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, directly shaping our high-performance AI infrastructure. You'll collaborate with top experts in deep learning, distributed systems, and optimization to bring cutting-edge research into real-world applications.

## What they're looking for

- Research background in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Physics, or similar field
- Experience solving analytical problems using analytic and quantitative approaches
- Experience communicating research to audiences with different backgrounds
- Experience coding in C/C++, Python, or other similar languages
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field
- Research and engineering experience demonstrated via grants, fellowships, patents, internships, work experience, and/or coding competitions

Tags: Engineering