About the role
Modal is building the infrastructure layer for AI workloads, providing instant GPU access and sub-second container starts. We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff - SDK to improve the developer and agent experience of our SDK and CLI, develop new primitives, and work directly with users. Ideal candidates have strong Python/JS/Go skills and a focus on developer ergonomics.
Requirements
5+ years experience in Python, JavaScript, or Go; strong code-as-product sense; understanding of async programming and concurrency; customer empathy; on-call participation; ability to work in New York office. Nice-to-have: developer tools, open-source, agentic workflows, ML/AI tools.
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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