FriendliAI
High-performance generative AI inference platform and serving infrastructure.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2021
- Employees
- 50
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Seed · $20M · 2025
Open positions
Software Engineer – Platform Security
Hands-on security engineer role at FriendliAI to architect and build the security foundations of its multi-tenant, Kubernetes-based serverless AI inference platform — owning control/data plane security, Terraform/Helm guardrails, IAM, secrets management, runtime detections, and compliance automation.
Software Engineer – Platform Security
Own the security architecture of FriendliAI's multi-tenant, Kubernetes-based serverless AI inference platform: design control-plane/data-plane security, build guardrails as code with Terraform and Helm, and implement IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, and runtime container detections. Hands-on role requiring 5+ years securing cloud-native platforms on AWS and Kubernetes.
Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Inference
Forward Deployed Engineer at FriendliAI working hands-on and embedded with enterprise customers to deploy, scale, and operate generative/agentic AI inference on FriendliAI infrastructure (Serverless/Dedicated Endpoints, Friendli Container). Core stack is Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, and GPU-based LLM serving across AWS, GCP, or OCI.
Strategic Account Executive
As a Strategic Account Executive at FriendliAI, you will be instrumental in driving our market expansion by securing high-value enterprise accounts and building strategic relationships with leading AI-forward…
Director of Product
About the job FriendliAI is looking for a Director of Product to own the product strategy and evolution of our AI inference platform. As Director of Product Management, you will define how FriendliAI’s inference…
Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Design and operate Kubernetes clusters for GPU-accelerated AI inference, extending core components and optimizing networking for bursty, latency-sensitive workloads.
Software Engineer - Full Stack
About FriendliAI FriendliAI is the fastest inference cloud for agents, built to run frontier open-weight models at scale in production. It delivers up to 7x faster output token speed, up to 90% lower inference costs,…
Software Engineer – AI Agents
About the Job We’re seeking an Agent Engineer to design and build agentic features in our platform, including document understanding, advanced RAG, and customer support automation. In this role, you will develop not…
Software Engineer – Senior Backend
About the Job We believe using large language and multimodal models should be as simple as calling an API. To achieve this in production, we need to serve enterprises across clouds, with authentication, billing,…
Software Engineer – AI Inference Engine
About the Job We are seeking a highly technical Inference Engine Engineer to optimize the performance and efficiency of our core inference engine. In this role, you will focus on designing, implementing, and optimizing…
Senior Product Manager
About the Job FriendliAI is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the strategy and execution of our AI inference platform. This is an individual contributor role with significant product leadership responsibility,…