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Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

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9 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work hands-on with companies to architect and deploy production workloads on Modal.
  • Lead technical discovery and architecture sessions with customers.
  • Architect migration paths from existing cloud infrastructures to Modal's platform.
  • Collaborate with product and sales teams as both an engineer and product stakeholder.
  • Build trusted relationships with technical leaders in AI companies.
  • Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proof-of-concepts.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems architecture and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate systems architecture tradeoffs.
  • Genuine interest in working directly with customers.
  • Bonus: experience with large-scale migrations or open-source contributions.
  • Willingness to work in-person in NYC, SF, or Stockholm.