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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.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a hands-on People Operations Specialist to join our People team and keep our day-to-day people operations running smoothly. You'll work side by side with the broader HR team - HRBP, People Ops, Recruiting, and Immigration - to make sure the many moving pieces of a fast-growing company land cleanly: new hires onboard without a hitch, our systems and data stay accurate, and employees get quick, clear answers when they have questions.\nThis role is ideal for someone early in their HR career who wants breadth. 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