People Partner, Engineering & Product (AI)

Location: San Mateo, United States; hybrid workplace

Salary: $200K–$220K plus equity

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

• Advise Engineering and Product leaders on roadmaps, team structures, organizational risks, and high-leverage people decisions.
• Partner with Recruiting on role scope, leveling, talent standards, and hiring across engineering, research, product, and design.
• Develop manager coaching, enablement frameworks, and support for first-time and newly hired managers.
• Shape performance, growth, leveling, calibration, and career paths for individual contributors and managers.
• Use headcount, performance, attrition, and engagement data to identify talent-density issues, top talent, and flight risks.
• Handle employee relations and support reorganizations, team changes, feedback, retention, and leadership decisions.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of progressive HR experience, including meaningful experience as an HRBP or People Partner supporting engineering, product, or R&D organizations.
• Experience in a high-growth technology or AI environment.
• Strong understanding of technical organizations, including team structures, individual-contributor and management paths, and the motivations of engineers, researchers, and product managers.
• Experience partnering with management at all levels, from VP+ leaders to first-time managers.
• Demonstrated experience frequently coaching and developing managers.
• Strong judgment in employee relations, including knowing when to coach, act, or escalate.
• Analytical, first-principles approach with the ability to diagnose root causes and build simple, scalable approaches.
• Familiarity with compensation and leveling for technical talent, including equity and competitive market dynamics.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI infrastructure, including low-latency inference and scalable model serving.
• Collaborate with engineers and AI researchers on technically advanced products.
• Operate in a fast-growing environment emphasizing ownership, impact, curiosity, and innovation.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.
• Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment.