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Inference Engineering and Product Lead

Modal Labs · San Francisco

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Infrastructureonsitelead$300k–$350k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own direction of LLM inference platform serving frontier open-source models at scale.
  • Lead serving stack, routing and agentic optimization for low-latency inference.
  • Partner with category-defining customers like Cognition, DoorDash and Ramp.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A hands-on engineering leader who loves building high-performance infrastructure and coaching strong teams. You are customer-obsessed, thrive on hard distributed systems problems, and want to shape frontier AI inference.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role
  • Track record building high-performance systems at scale
  • Strong background in cloud infrastructure
  • Deep knowledge of low-level OS foundations including Linux kernel, file systems, and containers

Lab profile

About Modal Labs

Serverless cloud infrastructure for AI workloads with instant GPU compute.

What they build

  • Serverless GPU cloud platform
  • Python SDK
  • Cloud sandboxes

Known for

  • Systems engineering at scale
  • ML performance optimization
  • Developer-first experience
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