Forward Deployed Engineer - ML

Job summary

Responsibilities

We’re looking for Forward Deployed ML Engineers who want to work at the intersection of deep technical work and direct customer impact. As an ML FDE, you’ll partner with leading AI companies and foundation model labs to help them achieve state-of-the-art performance on their most demanding…

• Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Cognition, and Meta to architect and optimize production AI workloads on Modal
• Contribute to open-source projects (members of the team are active contributors to SGLang) and publish technical content that demonstrates Modal’s capabilities across the AI stack
• Collaborate with Modal’s product and sales teams, contributing to the platform as both an engineer and a product stakeholder
• Build trusted relationships with technical leaders (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, ML leads) at companies doing frontier AI work
• Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proofs of concept that make Modal’s performance advantages tangible

Tech stack

• vLLM