FriendliAI
Software Development
FriendliAI is the Frontier Inference Cloud for Agents, delivering high throughput, low latency, and reliability at scale for agentic workloads. Through vertically optimized inference infrastructure, it achieves 2–5× faster output token speed and 50–90% lower inference cost, backed by a 99.99% uptime SLA built for high-volume agent traffic.
Is FriendliAI hiring?
Yes. As of November 4, 2026, FriendliAI has 20 open roles on Metaintro. 2 were posted in the last 30 days.
Open roles
Newest first. Pay shown when the posting lists it.
- Software Engineer – Platform SecuritySecuritySeoul, South Korea · On-siteSeoul, South KoreaOn-site—15d ago
- Software Engineer – Platform SecuritySecuritySan Francisco, California, United States · HybridSan Francisco, California, United StatesHybrid—15d ago
- Forward Deployed Engineer - AI InferenceDevOpsSan Francisco, California, United States · HybridSan Francisco, California, United StatesHybrid—29d ago
- Strategic Account ExecutiveSalesSan Francisco, California, United States · HybridSan Francisco, California, United StatesHybrid—Oct 1, 2026
- Director of ProductProduct/Project ManagementSan Francisco, California, United States · HybridSan Francisco, California, United StatesHybrid—Sep 16, 2026
- Software Engineer - Full StackDeveloperSeoul, South Korea · On-siteSeoul, South KoreaOn-site—Aug 18, 2026
- Software Engineer – Cloud InfrastructureDevOpsSan Francisco, California, United States · HybridSan Francisco, California, United StatesHybrid—Aug 12, 2026
- Software Engineer - Cloud InfrastructureDevOpsSeoul, South Korea · On-siteSeoul, South KoreaOn-site—Aug 7, 2026
Hiring pattern
How fast FriendliAI is adding roles, and how they're set up.
New roles each monthRoles first posted in the month
How roles are set upShare of open roles
Customers
All 8 companies FriendliAI names as customers.
Customers hiring now1
- LG AI Research22 open roles
Case studies7
- Upstage
- SK Telecom
- NextDay AI
- Liner
- Kilo Code
- Liner Scholar
- Scatter Lab
What their customers say
Quotes from people at FriendliAI's customers.
““Fluctuating traffic is no longer a concern because autoscaling just works.””
“Friendli Inference has enabled us to scale our operations cost-efficiently, allowing us to process over trillions of tokens each month with exceptional efficiency while cutting our GPUs by 50%. The performance and cost savings consistently exceed our expectations.”
“As our AI workloads grew, inference performance became increasingly important to the user experience. When we moved Liner Scholar from a closed model to GLM on FriendliAI, we saw about 30% lower LLM cost per turn and about 25% lower average response time per turn. FriendliAI gives us a high-performance way to run GLM as part of our production stack.”
“Both our 32B EXAONE and 236B K-EXAONE models run extremely fast on FriendliAI's platform, with customers expressing high satisfaction with the performance. FriendliAI's expert support has shortened testing and evaluation by several weeks, helping customers adopt and scale the full EXAONE model family faster than ever.”
“Over the past year, Kilo Code has tested several different inference providers hosting a range of both open and closed models. In a split test of GLM-5 usage, we were especially impressed by FriendliAI's results. Compared against several other providers, FriendliAI was consistently 7 times faster and had a significantly lower error rate. FriendliAI is now a core component of the Kilo stack, enabling high-performance access to the latest open-weight models from NVIDIA Nemotron, MiniMax, Z.ai and more.”
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“Friendli Container has been instrumental in scaling Zeta as it grew across Korea, Japan, and the U.S. While handling more than 1 billion monthly interactions, it gave us the speed, stability, and cost efficiency, and helped us achieve breakeven. Friendli Engine is an irreplaceable solution for generative AI serving, both in terms of speed and cost-effectiveness.”
AI launches and partners
What FriendliAI has launched and who it works with on AI.
- LaunchHugging Face integrationFriendliAI offers access to 636,519 models through Hugging Face integration, including models for text generation and computer vision.
- LaunchThe Frontier AI Inference CloudFriendliAI offers an inference cloud to deploy frontier open-weight and custom AI models.
- LaunchWeights & Biases integrationFriendliAI announced an integration with Weights & Biases to accelerate development and deployment workflows for ML developers working with generative AI models.
- LaunchFriendli Dedicated EndpointsFriendli Dedicated Endpoints serves Upstage’s Solar translation LLMs.
Skills they ask for
Most frequent across open postings.
Most requested skills
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Helm
Tech stack
- Analytics
- Google Analytics 4
- Google Tag Manager
- Libraries
- D3.js
- Tailwind CSS
- CMS
- Sanity
- Frameworks
- Next.js
Company facts
- Industry
- Software Development
- Sector (NAICS)
- Information
- Peer
- Website
- friendli.ai
- Careers
- friendli.ai/careers
Roles by location
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Questions about FriendliAI
- Is FriendliAI hiring?
- Yes. As of November 4, 2026, FriendliAI has 20 open roles on Metaintro. 2 were posted in the last 30 days. The most are in Developer (11), DevOps (3), and Product/Project Management (2).
- Where is FriendliAI hiring?
- FriendliAI is hiring in San Francisco and Seoul, with the most open roles in San Francisco.
- Does FriendliAI offer remote or hybrid work?
- 57% of open roles are hybrid and 14% are remote.
- Who are FriendliAI's customers?
- FriendliAI names 8 customers, including LG AI Research, Upstage, SK Telecom, NextDay AI, and Liner.
- What skills does FriendliAI look for?
- Its open roles most often ask for Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, and Helm.