Member of Technical Staff - Research, Post-Training
Modal Labs · New York · San Francisco
CHECKED 16H AGO
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build platform covering full LLM lifecycle from training to production observation.
- Advance post-training for long-context and long-horizon real-world tasks.
- Improve inference efficiency and reliability for high-stakes deployments.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Mission-driven researcher with RL and foundation-model depth who wants to turn advances into real product impact and collaborate across research and engineering.
Requirements
- PhD in CS, ML or related field, or master's with significant research or industry experience
- Record of research accomplishments in RL, ML, 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 venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, CVPR, UAI, JMLR or TMLR
- Mission-driven mindset focused on translating research into product impact
- Collaborative spirit and ability to work across research and engineering teams
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