# Member of Technical Staff, Systems Infrastructure (2026 PhD New Grad) 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: $200K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fireworks/ad58a098-ef75-4a4b-8475-55c2653213ef
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fireworks-member-of-technical-staff-systems-infrastructure-2026-phd-new-grad/

## About 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.

## What they're looking for

- PhD completed within the last 6 months, or expected completion by December 2026, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field
- Research background in one or more of: distributed systems, operating systems, scheduling and resource management, storage systems, computer networks, computer architecture, or high-performance computing
- Depth in at least one of the three focus areas above, demonstrated through your dissertation, publications, or systems you've built
- Strong systems programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Go, or a similar language, plus working proficiency in Python
- Experience building and evaluating real systems — not only simulation — and reasoning rigorously about performance with measurements
- Ability to communicate systems design and results clearly to audiences with different backgrounds

Tags: Engineering