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Inference Engineering and Product Lead

About Us:AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt t

Company

Modal

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-16T12:05:13.551+00:00

Modal is hiring a lead to own its LLM inference platform, running a team of engineers across the serving stack, routing infrastructure, an internal optimization platform and the customer-facing product. The role is hands-on: technical contribution, product direction and people management split as the team needs. Work includes recruiting and managing engineers, design and code reviews, and turning frontier customer workloads into a roadmap. Requirements: 10+ years in industry, 3+ years leading, scalable systems, cloud infrastructure, and low-level OS knowledge. On-site in San Francisco.