Support Engineer

Fireworks AI · Data AI · San Mateo, CA · Engineering

This role is a Technical Support & Community Engineer for an AI infrastructure company. The primary responsibilities include handling customer support requests, managing the developer community, troubleshooting technical issues by investigating logs and internal tooling, and triaging product issues to the engineering team. The role also involves identifying sales and product opportunities and contributing to a knowledge base. While the role interacts with AI infrastructure and may use AI tools for automation, its core function is support and community management, not building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and drive resolution for customer support requests, including managing the Discord community, handling customer communication around active issues and incidents, and responding to inquiries in a timely, helpful manner.
  2. Identify and surface sales, partnership, and product opportunities discovered through support conversations when appropriate.
  3. Investigate and troubleshoot issues when reported by customers by looking into logs and other internal tooling.
  4. Triaging product issues to the product and engineering team.
  5. Contributing to a knowledge base for the broader support team.

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience in a forward-deployed or customer-facing technical role.
  • Basic Python and scripting experience.
  • Strong passion in the AI field and basic knowledge of how modern AIs are built.
  • Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand, investigate, and resolve customer issues.
  • Experience performing technical troubleshooting, including collecting debugging information and triaging problems.
  • Excellent communication skills and high degree of customer empathy.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with evolving processes and responsibilities.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience supporting AI/ML platforms
  • Prior experience in community management (e.g., Discord, GitHub, or forums)

What the JD emphasized

  • HIPAA
  • GDPR