Forward Deployed Engineer - ML

📋 Description

• Work with Suno, Lovable, Cognition, and Meta to optimize AI workloads on Modal
• Contribute to open-source projects and publish content on Modal's AI stack
• Collaborate with product and sales as an engineer and product stakeholder
• Build relationships with CTOs, VPs of Eng, and ML leads at frontier AI
• Conduct demos, experiments, and POCs to show Modal's performance

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years ML engineering experience (inference optimization, training, GPUs, or ML infra)
• Familiar with serving (vLLM, SGLang) and training toolchains; deep on at least one
• Strong communicator to discuss architecture with engineering leadership
• Genuine interest in working directly with customers
• Bonus: open-source contributions or ML publications
• Willing to work in-person in New York City, San Francisco, or Stockholm