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Member of Technical Staff, Research (2026 PhD New Grad)

About Us:Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Be

Company

Fireworks AI

Location

San Mateo; New York

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-08T20:36:20.819+00:00

Fireworks AI is hiring PhD graduates for its Research team as Members of Technical Staff, based in San Mateo or New York on a hybrid schedule. The work is foundational research on LLMs and multimodal systems: designing and evaluating model architectures, training methods and optimization techniques, then helping engineering teams move prototypes into production. Hires are paired with a senior researcher mentor. The posting asks for a PhD completed within six months or by December 2026, Python or C/C++ coding, and hands-on PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow experience.