Member of Technical Staff - Research, Post-TrainingActive$150K–$350K

The opportunity

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

What you'll do

  • A PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field. Candidates: with a master’s degree and significant research or industry experience will also be considered.

  • A demonstrated record of research accomplishments in reinforcement learning,: machine learning, foundation models, or related fields.

  • Experience with large-scale training and inference infrastructure, including: distributed systems and multi-node GPU clusters.

  • Experience developing, training, optimizing, or deploying state-of-the-art large-scale models.

  • First-author publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, CVPR, UAI, JMLR, or TMLR.

  • A mission-driven mindset and a strong desire to translate research advances into meaningful product impact.

What they're looking for

  • A collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively across research and engineering teams.