Company facts
- Founded
- 2021
- Employees
- 118
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Private
Open positions
Member of Technical Staff - Machines
Engineer the machines layer of Modal's serverless AI cloud: automate provisioning, imaging, monitoring, and repair of a global fleet of bare-metal and cloud hosts (GPUs, RDMA, networking, storage) so it stays healthy without humans. Heavy Linux internals, cloud, and cross-layer debugging work.
Member of Technical Staff - Storage
Build and maintain the distributed object storage system underpinning Modal's serverless AI platform — caching, replication, peer-to-peer sharing, and garbage collection across hundreds of petabytes spanning cloud object stores, CDNs, and local NVMe. Core tech: distributed storage/caching systems, S3/CDNs, Linux kernel internals, with Rust as a plus.
Member of Design Staff - Brand
Staff-level Brand Designer at Modal, a serverless cloud infrastructure company for AI workloads, shaping the brand across the marketing website, campaigns, events, and editorial projects while mentoring other designers as one of the first hires on the new Brand team. Core focus: visual identity, brand systems spanning web and motion, and developer-facing creative.
Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference
Modal is hiring a research staff member to own end-to-end inference research, focusing on speculative decoding, quantization (FP8/INT4), KV-cache management, and disaggregated prefill/decode to reduce cost per token and tail latency for their AI infrastructure platform. This is an in-person role in NYC or SF, working directly with customers and external research labs like ZLab and SGLang.
Solutions Architect
About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time,…
Systems Engineering Manager
About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time,…
Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems
About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time,…
Member of Technical Staff - Systems
About Us: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time,…