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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.\nThe Role:\nGPUs are the most expensive and supply-constrained input in AI. Our ability to effectively deploy them towards our customer demand is one of the critical inputs to our growth. 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This is a hands-on role: you'll write production-quality code, ship models that drive real decisions, and bring an true ownership mentality to help set priorities in addition to executing on them.\nWhat You'll Work On:\nSupply/Demand Modeling\nBuild fill-rate models for serverless inference, balancing utilization against performance and latency targets.\n\nModel how traffic is shared and multiplexed across models and customers to set safe capacity buffers.\n\nPricing Optimization\nDesign pricing for low-utilization capacity, including spot and preemptible offerings, off-peak and overnight windows, and sub-scale capacity pools.\n\nDevelop pricing policies to optimize our capacity utilization and price-yield.\n\nDesign execute experiments and causal studies to estimate elasticity across customer segments, models, and products.\n\nGPU Mix Optimization\nOptimize the model-hardware matching across GPU generations, vendors, clouds, and regions, accounting for workload fit, substitution, and lead times.\n\nOptimize our capacity across commitment types and terms, quantifying the tradeoff between cost, flexibility, and utilization risk to guide how we source capacity.\n\nWhat we’re looking for:\nMinimum Qualifications\nMaster’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. 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