Company · AI infrastructure · board on Ashby, verified 2026-10-05
What Modal hires for
Modal lists 37 open roles; 68% of them are technical, and the largest family is Research Engineer (7).
Open roles
37
37 new in 7 days
Technical (AI engineering)
68%
25 roles
Posted base (median range)
$180K–$280K
89% publish pay
Bay Area · remote
54% · 3%
Open roles by family
| Role family | Open roles, as a bar | Open roles |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer | 7 | |
| FDE / Applied | 6 | |
| Software Eng | 6 | |
| GTM | 5 | |
| G&A | 4 | |
| Security | 2 | |
| Inference / Perf | 2 | |
| Program / Ops | 1 | |
| Product / Design | 1 | |
| Research Scientist | 1 | |
| Infra / Hardware | 1 | |
| Other | 1 |
What its technical postings ask for
Share of 25 technical postings that mention each skill; the company's description of itself is not counted.
| Skill | Share, as a bar | Share |
|---|---|---|
| LLMs | 28% | |
| Kubernetes | 24% | |
| Rust | 24% | |
| Python | 20% | |
| RL / post-training | 16% | |
| vLLM / SGLang / TensorRT | 16% | |
| Distributed training | 8% | |
| Go | 8% | |
| C++ | 8% | |
| PhD | 8% | |
| CUDA / Triton | 4% | |
| TypeScript | 4% |
Most recent Modal postings
- Global Workplace LeadNew York · G&A · $180K–$225K base · first seen 2026-10-01
- Documentation EngineerNew York · Software Eng · $200K–$275K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Inference Engineering and Product LeadSan Francisco · Product / Design · $300K–$350K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Member of Technical Staff - StorageSan Francisco | Stockholm | New York · Research Engineer · $250K–$300K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Detection and Response EngineerNew York · Security · $150K–$270K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Account ManagerSan Francisco | New York · GTM · $300K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Forward Deployed Engineer - SystemsNew York | San Francisco · FDE / Applied · $180K–$240K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Forward Deployed Engineer - SystemsStockholm · FDE / Applied · first seen 2026-09-29
- Systems Engineering ManagerStockholm · Software Eng · $175K–$250K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Member of Technical Staff - ML PerformanceNew York | San Francisco · Inference / Perf · $200K–$350K base · first seen 2026-09-29