Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Substrate
Modal LabsNew York, New York, United States • Stockholm, Sweden • San Francisco, California, United States
Posted September 18, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Modal Labs is a platform that accelerates development, reduces costs, and scales workloads for data science and machine learning teams using generative AI models and serverless GPUs. Our pay-per-use model ensures efficient resource utilization, allowing users to access powerful computing power on demand without idle costs. Modal offers a wide range of services including LLM inference and fine-tuning, generative model training and inference, and computational biology, among others.
Job Description
Modal is building a serverless compute platform to support AI companies and is seeking engineers to optimize workloads, negotiate with cloud vendors, and design improvements to their scheduling system. The role involves system-wide optimization, from GPU costs to product offerings, with a focus on finding new and efficient solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
- Strong cloud skills, and deep familiarity with at least one of AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud.
- Experience with data science, visualization, and statistics.
- Love for optimizing stuff, especially the bottom line.
- Familiarity with linear programming solvers and related optimization techniques is a plus.
