Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems

ABOUT US:

Modal provides the infrastructure foundation for AI teams. With instant GPU access, sub-second container startups, and native storage, Modal makes it simple to train models, run batch jobs, and serve low-latency inference. We have thousands of customers who rely on us for production AI workloads, including Lovable, Scale AI, Substack, and Suno.

We're a fast-growing team based out of NYC, SF, and Stockholm. We've hit 9-figure ARR and recently raised a Series B https://modal.com/blog/announcing-our-series-b at a $1.1B valuation. Our investors include Lux Capital https://www.luxcapital.com/, Redpoint Ventures https://www.redpoint.com/, Amplify Partners https://www.amplifypartners.com/, and Elad Gil https://eladgil.com/.

Working at Modal means joining one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure organizations at an early stage, with many opportunities to grow within the company. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g. Seaborn https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn, Luigi https://github.com/spotify/luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.

THE ROLE:

We are looking for strong engineers with experience training production machine learning models. If you are interested in contributing to open-source projects and evolving Modal's infrastructure to train the next generation of language models, we'd love to hear from you!

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience writing high-quality, high-performance code.

• Experience working with torch and high-level training frameworks (Huggingface, verl, slime)

• Experience with ML training optimization (tell us a story about eliminating data loading bottlenecks, overlapping communications with compute, rewriting a trainer to handle off-policy rollouts, etc.)

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc).

• Ability to work in-person, in our NYC or San Francisco office.

• Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.