Forward Deployed Engineer - SystemsActive$180K–$240K

The opportunity

AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.

What you'll do

  • Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Lovable, Cognition, and Meta to: architect and deploy massive-scale production workloads on Modal

  • Lead technical discovery and architecture sessions with prospective and existing customers

  • Architect migration paths from existing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) to Modal's serverless platform

  • 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 proof-of-concepts that make Modal's: infrastructure advantages tangible

What they're looking for

  • + years of professional software engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure): compute, storage, networking, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with distributed systems architecture, data pipelines, and: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
  • Strong communicator who can go deep on systems architecture with an: infrastructure team and clearly articulate tradeoffs to technical leadership