Data Scientist (AI)

Location: San Mateo, United States; hybrid

Salary: $250,000–$300,000 per year

Company

Fireworks AI provides infrastructure for building, training, and serving specialized AI models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads.

What you will do

• Build fill-rate models for serverless inference while balancing utilization, performance, and latency targets.
• Model traffic sharing and multiplexing across models and customers to establish safe capacity buffers.
• Design pricing for low-utilization capacity, including spot and preemptible offerings, off-peak windows, overnight windows, and sub-scale capacity pools.
• Develop pricing policies that optimize capacity utilization and price-yield.
• Design and execute experiments and causal studies to estimate elasticity across customer segments, models, and products.
• Optimize model-hardware matching and capacity sourcing across GPU generations, vendors, clouds, regions, commitment types, and contract terms.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Operations Research, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, with 7+ years of hands-on experience in pricing, revenue management, or optimization; PhD preferred.
• Strong grounding in at least two of stochastic optimization, revenue management and pricing, causal inference and experimental design, or combinatorial optimization.
• Track record of delivering production-quality models with direct business impact.
• Strong coding skills and experience with optimization tooling and methodologies.
• Ability to communicate tradeoffs and uncertainty clearly to engineers and executives.

Nice to have

• Experience on capacity planning, forecasting, or pricing science teams at a cloud computing provider or marketplace business.
• Familiarity with GPU infrastructure and LLM inference economics, including throughput, batching, utilization, and cost per token.
• Experience as the first quantitative hire in a new function, building models and data pipelines from scratch.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI infrastructure challenges including low-latency inference and scalable model serving.
• Collaborate with engineers and AI researchers on technology used by businesses and developers.
• Operate in a fast-growing environment emphasizing ownership, direct impact, curiosity, and innovation.
• Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment.

Hiring process

• No specific selection stages or application actions are provided in the posting.