Member of Technical Staff - ML Training Systems
Modal · New York City, NY · Engineering
About this role
Modal is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with Docker, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Linux. Compensation is listed at $150,000–$350,000 per year.
- Role
- Staff Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Feb 25, 2026
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Job description
from Modal careersAbout Us:
Modal provides the infrastructure foundation for AI teams. With instant GPU access, sub-second container startups, and native storage, Modal makes it simple to train models, run batch jobs, and serve low-latency inference. We have thousands of customers who rely on us for production AI workloads, including Lovable, Scale AI, Substack, and Suno.
We're a fast-growing team based out of NYC, SF, and Stockholm. We've hit 9-figure ARR and recently raised a Series B at a $1.1B valuation. Our investors include Lux Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Amplify Partners, and Elad Gil.
Working at Modal means joining one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure organizations at an early stage, with many opportunities to grow within the company. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g. Seaborn, Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.
The Role:
We are looking for strong engineers with experience training production machine learning models. If you are interested in contributing to open-source projects and evolving Modal's infrastructure to train the next generation of language models, we'd love to hear from you!
Requirements:
5+ years of experience writing high-quality, high-performance code.
Experience working with torch and high-level training frameworks (Huggingface, verl, slime)
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