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ModalModalNew York, NY

Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems

Forward Deployed Engineer partners with AI companies to architect and deploy large-scale production workloads on Modal's serverless platform, leading technical discovery, migrations from AWS/GCP/Azure, and demos. Requires 3+ years software engineering with cloud, containers, and distributed systems expertise.

180k – 240k/yr
On-site3+ YOESolutions Architecture

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Work hands-on with companies like Suno, Lovable, Cognition, and Meta to architect and deploy massive-scale production workloads on Modal's platform.
  • 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.
  • Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proof-of-concepts that make Modal's infrastructure advantages tangible.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) — compute, storage, networking, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with distributed systems architecture, data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
  • Strong communicator who can go deep on systems architecture with an infrastructure team and clearly articulate tradeoffs to technical leadership.
  • Genuine interest in working directly with customers — you find it energizing to understand someone else's problem and help them solve it.

Bonus

  • Experience leading large-scale migration efforts, open-source contributions, or side projects you're proud of.

Skills

AWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesTerraformPulumiCloudFormationDistributed SystemsInfrastructure As Code

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