People Operations Specialist

San Mateo · 2-3 years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 27, 2026

At a glance

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. 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.

We'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.
This role is ideal for someone early in their HR career who wants breadth, touching HRIS, onboarding, contractor operations, immigration support, internal documentation, and employee recognition.

Own day-to-day updates in our HRIS including start date changes, title and job detail adjustments, reporting line changes, and other employee record maintenance.
Run regular internal data audits to catch and correct discrepancies before they become downstream problems for payroll, benefits, or reporting.
Partner with People Ops, Finance, and IT to keep employee data consistent across systems.
Coordinate end-to-end onboarding logistics for new hires including monitoring background check status, completing I-9 verifications, and coordinating with IT.
Help facilitate our weekly new hire onboarding sessions by prepping materials, managing logistics, presenting portions of the agenda, and gathering feedback.
Own the contractor lifecycle end to end including onboarding, contract timeline tracking, and offboarding.
Support immigration case processing in partnership with our People team and outside counsel by gathering documents, tracking case status, and keeping timelines on track.
Own our internal HR wiki and document new and changed processes.
Support administration of our recognition program including managing award winner prizes, swag, and fulfillment logistics.

Degree in Human Resources or a related field
2-3 years of experience in an HR Generalist or HR Specialist role
Highly organized, with a track record of juggling a wide span of workstreams and keeping details from slipping through the cracks
Resourceful and self-directed
Comfortable pivoting as priorities shift, and able to re-prioritize quickly
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Discretion and good judgment in handling confidential employee information

Experience supporting immigration cases (H-1B, TN, O-1, green card processing, or similar)
Experience in a startup or other high-growth, fast-paced environment
Hands-on experience with an HRIS such as Rippling
Enthusiastic, positive, and brings great energy