About the role
Modal is a serverless platform for AI workloads, serving companies like Ramp and DoorDash. We seek a Member of Technical Staff for the machines layer: managing bare-metal and cloud host fleet, automating provisioning, monitoring, remediation. Role involves GPUs, networking, low-level systems.
Requirements
5+ years of high-quality production code experience. Experience with bare-metal provisioning, BMC/IPMI, PXE, firmware. Strong cloud skills. Deep knowledge of Linux kernel, drivers, networking, containers. Effective debugging across layers. Willing to be on-call. Preferred: GPU/NVIDIA stack, Go.
About the company
Modal
Modal is a cloud infrastructure company that enables developers to deploy and scale AI workloads. They provide an AI-native runtime with sub-second cold starts and instant autoscaling, allowing users to run inference, training, and sandboxes with a developer experience that feels local. Their value proposition lies in offering elastic cloud capacity and production-ready observability, simplifying the process of building and deploying robust AI applications.
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