Inference Engineering and Product Lead
Modal · San Francisco
- Level
- Lead
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-09-16
- Compensation
- $300K – $350K • Offers Equity
- Team
- Engineering, Engineering
Role description
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 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.…
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