Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

📋 Description

• Partner with Account Executives to identify, qualify, and close strategic enterprise opportunities
• Lead technical discovery sessions with customers to understand their infrastructure and requirements
• Design and present technical solutions that show how Modal addresses customer needs
• Architect migration paths from AWS/GCP/Azure to Modal's serverless platform
• Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proofs-of-concepts
• Navigate complex evaluations and address security, compliance, and integration concerns

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in solutions engineering, sales engineering, or customer-facing technical roles
• Hands-on with AWS, GCP, and Azure including compute, storage, and networking
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, data pipelines, and distributed systems
• Understanding ML/AI infra challenges including training, inference, and MLOps
• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines