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Modal · 4 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Substrate

positionNew York
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$150K/yr - $270K/yr
date5+ years exp

Modal is building a serverless compute platform to support the next generation of AI companies, and they are seeking a Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Substrate to optimize their cloud infrastructure. The role involves negotiating with cloud vendors, modeling resource costs, and designing workload scheduling systems.

AI InfrastructureCloud Data ServicesInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
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Responsibilities

Negotiating with cloud vendors and influencing our cloud strategy
Modeling GPU and resource costs
Coming up with, backtesting, and rolling out new optimizations
Designing the next iteration of our workload scheduling system
Pricing new product offerings and GPU types

Qualification

Cloud computingData scienceOptimization techniquesLinear programmingProduction code

Required

5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
Strong cloud skills, and deep familiarity with at least one of AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud
Experience with data science, visualization, and statistics
A love for optimizing stuff, especially the bottom line
Ability to work in-person in our NYC or Stockholm office

Preferred

Familiarity with linear programming solvers and related optimization techniques is a plus

Company

Modal

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Deploy generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and more on Modal's platform.
dateFounded in 2021
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://modal.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2024 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$110.5M
Key Investors
Lux CapitalRedpointAmplify Partners
2025-09-29Series B· $87M
2024-08-20Series A
2023-10-10Series A· $16.5M

Leadership Team

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Luis Capelo
Member of Technical Staff
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