Founding Data Scientist - Capacity & Pricing Optimization

Wwshemi; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Fireworks, a leading AI platform, is hiring its first Data Scientist to build quantitative models that drive pricing, packaging, and capacity decisions. You will own models at the intersection of operations research and economics, shipping production-quality code and influencing priorities in a fast-growing environment.

The role focuses on supply/demand modeling, pricing optimization for capacity, and GPU mix planning across regions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in pricing, revenue management, or optimization.
• Strong grounding in two areas: pricing or optimization, plus causal inference.
• Production-quality models that directly drive business impact.
• Strong coding skills and experience with optimization tooling.
• Ability to communicate tradeoffs and uncertainty clearly to engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Build supply/demand models to balance capacity and demand.
• Design and implement pricing optimization for low-utilization capacity.
• Develop GPU mix optimization to match models to hardware across regions.

Skills

Operations research

Economics

Statistics

Pricing / Revenue management

Optimization

Programming / coding

Communication

Education

Master's in Operations Research

Master's in Economics

Master's in Industrial Engineering

Master's in Statistics

PhD preferred

Tools

Optimization tooling

Job description

Fireworks, a leading AI platform, is hiring its first Data Scientist to build quantitative models that drive pricing, packaging, and capacity decisions. You will own models at the intersection of operations research and economics, shipping production-quality code and influencing priorities in a fast-growing environment.

The role focuses on supply/demand modeling, pricing optimization for capacity, and GPU mix planning across regions.