Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

Job summary

Responsibilities

We’re looking for Forward Deployed Engineers on our engineering team who want to work at the intersection of deep infrastructure work and direct customer impact. As an FDE, you’ll partner with leading AI companies and foundation labs on cloud architecture, networking, storage, containerization…

• Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Lovable, Cognition, and Meta to architect and deploy massive-scale production workloads on Modal
• Lead technical discovery and architecture sessions with prospective and existing customers
• Architect migration paths from existing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) to Modal’s serverless platform
• 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

Tech stack

• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform