Forward Deployed Engineer - ML (London)

Highlights

• Partner with leading AI companies and labs on demanding production workloads.
• Architect and optimize LLM serving, training, and audio pipelines at scale.
• Publish technical content demonstrating Modal's capabilities across AI stack.

Ideal candidate

A curious, customer-obsessed engineer who loves deep technical problem-solving and direct customer impact. You thrive partnering with frontier AI teams and clearly communicating tradeoffs to both engineers and leaders.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional ML engineering experience, ideally in inference optimization, model training, GPU programming, or ML infrastructure
• Familiar with serving (e.g., vLLM, SGLang) and training (e.g., slime, verl, TRL) toolchains, with depth in at least one
• Strong communicator able to discuss technical architecture with engineers and tradeoffs with technical leadership
• Genuine interest in working directly with customers to understand and solve their problems
• Willing to work in person in London