Forward Deployed ML Engineers work at the intersection of deep technical work and direct customer impact, partnering with leading AI companies and foundation model labs to achieve state-of-the-art performance on workloads like LLM serving, model training, and audio pipelines.
- Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Cognition, and Meta to architect and optimize production AI workloads on Modal
- Contribute to open-source projects (e.g., SGLang) and publish technical content
- Collaborate with Modal’s product and sales teams, contributing to the platform as both an engineer and a product stakeholder
- Build trusted relationships with technical leaders (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, ML leads) at companies doing frontier AI work
- Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proofs of concept
- Nice to have: Side projects
- Nice to have: open-source contributions
- Nice to have: published work in ML or systems performance
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