Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate at Fireworks AI builds and promotes hands-on technical content (tutorials, demos, guides) to help developers deploy and fine-tune AI models in production. Combines engineering (coding, model deployment) with public technical communication (blogs, talks, community engagement) to shape Fireworks as the go-to platform for AI infrastructure.
- Compensation
- $200K–$230K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Developer relations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of combined engineering and developer-facing experience (e.g., DevRel, technical writing, solutions engineering)
- Strong Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and hands-on experience shipping production software
- Experience with LLM APIs, fine-tuning, inference optimization, and deploying models in production
- Public technical writing, speaking, or open-source contributions demonstrating ability to explain complex topics
- Experience presenting at conferences, meetups, or workshops
- Ability to quickly learn and implement new AI advancements
Nice to have
- Open-source contributions or maintainership in AI/ML inference engines, model libraries, or agent frameworks
- Experience with inference optimization, serving architecture, or evaluation methodology
- Experience building sustainable content operations, launch processes, or community programs
- Experience being early on a DevRel team and helping establish its operations
Full description
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, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
About This Role
Developers decide what infrastructure wins. They try three platforms in an afternoon, keep the one that got them to a working inference call fastest, and tell everyone else about it. As a Developer Advocate at Fireworks, you own a piece of that decision: you make Fireworks the platform developers reach for first when they want to build, fine-tune, and serve frontier open models in production. You do that by building things worth showing, not by talking about things other people built.
This role has a dual bar, and we mean both halves of it. You are a working engineer: you ship code, read diffs, deploy models, and can hold your own in a conversation about batching, quantization, or why a fine-tune regressed. You are also a public technical communicator: you write clearly enough that a senior engineer forwards it, you're good on a stage, and you have or want a real presence in the places developers actually argue about this stuff. Most people are strong at one and passable at the other. We're looking for the rarer profile who is genuinely credible at both, because in AI infrastructure the audience can tell within one paragraph whether you've actually run the thing.
The field moves weekly. A major open-weights model drops and the window to be the definitive resource on it is measured in days. Your job is to be one step ahead of that cadence, consistently, and to make it look repeatable rather than heroic.
This is one of the first advocate seats on the team, which means you'll help set the standards: for content, for launch response, and for how we show up. We're hiring at either the Senior or Staff level and will determine level through the interview process based on your experience.
Location and Work Style
This role is based in San Mateo, CA or London. You'll travel regularly to the conferences, hackathons, meetups, and partner events where the developer community shows up. Expect roughly 20% to 25% travel in a typical quarter, concentrated around major events and launches.
If you're based in London, you'll anchor our presence in the European developer community, work across time zones with a primarily US-based team, and travel periodically to our San Mateo HQ for onsites and planning.