Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems
Modal
Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems at Modal is a full time role based in new york, new york, United States. The listing states pay of $150k–$350k. It was published on 25 February 2026 and was open at last check.
| Role | Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems |
|---|---|
| Company | Modal |
| Location | new york, new york, United States |
| Employment type | Full Time |
| Pay (as listed) | $150k–$350k |
| Published | 25 February 2026 |
| Status | Open at last check |
About Us:
AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.
Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.
Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable, Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September.
Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
The Role:
We are looking for strong engineers with experience training production machine learning models. If you are interested in contributing to open-source projects and evolving Modal's infrastructure to train the next generation of language models, we'd love to hear from you!
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience writing high-quality, high-performance code.
- Experience working with torch and high-level training frameworks (Huggingface, verl, slime)
- Experience with ML training optimization (tell us a story about eliminating data loading bottlenecks, overlapping communications with compute, rewriting a trainer to handle off-policy rollouts, etc.)
- Nice-to-have: familiarity with low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc).
- Ability to work in-person, in our NYC or San Francisco office.
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
Create your free OnJob profile to apply — we'll take you to Modal's application after sign-up. · Posted 25 Feb 2026.
Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems at Modal — questions answered
What does the Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems role at Modal pay?
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Where is the Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems role at Modal based?
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Is the Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems role at Modal still open?
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