management
Posted 3 days agoHead of Developer Relations
at fireworks
Remote
Requirements
- ABOUT US: At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure.
- We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models.
- We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.
- In the last few months alone we launched Fireworks Training, partnered with Microsoft Azure Foundry, and published research straight from our production systems.
- (blog https://fireworks.ai/blog/frontier-rl-is-cheaper-than-you-think) - Open source agents with frontier advisors: matching frontier performance through training and harness engineering.
- (blog https://fireworks.ai/blog/open-source-agents-frontier-advisors) - The fine-tuning bottleneck is not the algorithm: integration friction and iteration speed are what actually stall teams; we documented the patterns across dozens of customer engagements.
- (blog) https://fireworks.ai/blog/fine-tuning-bottlenecks ABOUT THIS ROLE The Head of Developer Relations owns how developers discover, learn, adopt, and champion Fireworks.
- You set the strategy, run the programs, and build the team that makes our developer community the most informed and most active in AI infrastructure.
- You will build a team of developer advocates who are genuinely in tune with the frontier and can become credible, hands-on experts in the newest AI developments faster than anyone else in the market.
- On properties we do not own, that means showing up with credibility and consistency on GitHub, X, Reddit, YouTube, Hacker News, and the open-source projects our developers depend on.
- Success is measured by team output, the credibility and reach of individual advocates, and how quickly the team produces authoritative material after a major AI development.
- TECHNICAL CONTENT AND DEVELOPER EDUCATION You own the content engine that helps developers go from first touch to production: tutorials, quickstarts, reference apps, benchmarks, video, and deep technical writing on inference, fine-tuning, and serving open models.
- - Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
- - Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
- - Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
- Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer.
Additional details
- Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry.
- A few examples of what that looks like in practice: - Frontier RL is cheaper than the mega-cluster narrative suggests: we ran cross-region rollouts using 98% sparse weight deltas and published what we learned.
- You build and lead the team that turns Fireworks into the platform developers reach for first when they want to build, fine-tune, and serve frontier open models in production.
- You will cultivate developer communities everywhere developers actually are, across the properties we own and the ones we do not, and in person at the events that matter.
- The right person is a builder and an operator who is equally comfortable shipping a demo, speaking on a conference stage, recruiting elite advocates, and reporting developer health metrics to the executive team.
- Reports to: SVP Marketing Location: Remote (US) with periodic travel to San Mateo HQ and to key events LOCATION AND WORK STYLE This role is remote-friendly within the US. You will travel to our San Mateo HQ periodically for team onsites and planning, and you will travel regularly to the conferences, hackathons, meetups, and partner events where the developer community shows up.
- We will establish a cadence that works for the team and the role.
- On our owned properties, that means our docs, blog, examples, cookbooks, Discord, forums, and developer newsletter.
- You meet developers where they are instead of waiting for them to come to us. Success is measured by community growth, engagement, and the share of developer conversations in our category where Fireworks shows up.
- IN-PERSON EVENTS AND FIELD PRESENCE You own the in-person strategy that builds real relationships at scale: hackathons, workshops, meetups, conference talks, sponsorships, and developer dinners.