Forward Deployed Engineer - ML (London)

📋 Description

• Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Cognition, and Meta to architect and optimize production AI
• Contribute to open-source projects and publish technical content that demonstrates Modal's
• Collaborate with Modal's product and sales teams, contributing to the platform as both an engineer
• Build trusted relationships with technical leaders at companies doing frontier AI work
• Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proofs of concept that make Modal's performance

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of professional ML engineering experience, ideally with hands-on work in inference
• Familiarity with serving (e.g., vLLM, SGLang) and training (e.g., slime, verl, TRL) toolchains
• Strong communication skills to go deep on technical architecture and articulate tradeoffs to
• Genuine interest in working directly with customers
• Willing to work in person in London

🎁 Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of deep technical work and direct customer impact
• Collaborate with world-class engineers, computational scientists, and former founders
• Contribute to open-source projects (e.g., SGLang)
• Build trusted relationships with technical leaders at frontier AI companies