San Francisco
6 months ago

Job Overview

Job Type
FullTime
Pay
Not disclosed

Job description

Location:
San Francisco, United States
Work arrangement:
On-site

Role Summary

FriendliAI is seeking a Solution Architect specializing in open-source AI models, AI inference API integration, and agentic systems. You will work closely with our customers to integrate FriendliAI’s inference and agent frameworks into real-world products, enabling them to build and scale AI applications effectively.

You will work directly on our customers’ projects, collaborating with their engineering teams to solve challenges in integrating tools, environments, and models with AI agents. This is a hands-on, customer-embedded role.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement AI-powered products using FriendliAI’s APIs
  • Guide customers on selecting, evaluating, and operating AI models across different domains
  • Integrate and extend open-source frameworks for FriendliAI integration
  • Build and deploy custom inference endpoints, chat flows, and multi-agent orchestration pipelines
  • Develop SDKs, example applications, and reference APIs for agentic and generative AI use cases
  • Provide deep technical guidance on prompt engineering, API composition, and workflow orchestration
  • Debug and optimize context and memory across long-running agent sessions
  • Gather customer feedback and translate it into product-level improvements
  • Lead technical demos, developer workshops, or webinars

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in backend or API development
  • Proficient in Python and modern web frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, or similar)
  • Strong experience deploying LLMs and integrating into generative AI APIs
  • Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, etc.)
  • Strong experience in integrating open-source generative AI models into applications
  • Excellent communication skills and a passion for improving developer experience
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in real-world environments

Preferred Experience

  • Contributions to open-source AI libraries or projects
  • Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration, memory systems, RAG, and workflow DAGs
  • Experience with serverless backends or API gateways

Benefits

  • A front-row seat to the generative AI infrastructure revolution
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • Daily lunch and dinner provided; unlimited snacks and beverages
  • Health check-up and top-tier hardware support
  • Flexible working hours and a highly collaborative environment

About the Company

FriendliAI is building the next-generation AI inference platform that accelerates the deployment of large language and multimodal models with unmatched performance and efficiency. Our infrastructure powers high-throughput, low-latency workloads for global organizations and integrates directly with Hugging Face, providing instant access to over 600,000 open-source models. We are on a mission to deliver the world’s best platform for AI inference.

Role:
Solutions Architect - AI Model Specialist
Job Type:
FullTime

Company profile

FriendliAI

friendli.ai

FriendliAI is an AI inference cloud built to run frontier open-weight models in production for agentic workloads such as long-context inference, real-time streaming and tool calling. Its vertically optimized inference infrastructure delivers faster output token speeds, lower inference costs and 99.99% uptime, and it integrates with Hugging Face, giving developers access to over 600,000 open-source models.

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