# Customer Engineer
**Company:** [Modal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/modal)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $150K-$230K
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Networking, Gpus, Machine Learning, Model Training, Inference Optimization, Performance Profiling, Kubernetes, Automation
**Posted:** 2025-09-23
> Builds technical support for AI/ML workloads by shipping code, automating fixes, and directly assisting customers with debugging and optimization. Requires deep expertise in low-level infrastructure or AI/ML engineering with strong communication skills.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Ship code that matters: fix bugs, build features, and create automation that improves the experience for every Modal user.
- Work directly with customers: help developers and ML engineers debug, optimize, and architect their workloads across Slack, email, and calls.
- Build scalable systems: design tooling, dashboards, and automated workflows that make support efficient at scale.
- Close the feedback loop: translate patterns into docs fixes, API changes, or new feature proposals.
- Contribute to open source and technical content: write examples, build demos, and publish content.

## Requirements
- Depth in low-level infrastructure (operating systems, file systems, networking, performance profiling, cluster management, distributed systems) or AI/ML engineering (training models, optimizing inference, GPUs, ML infrastructure), with familiarity in the other.
- Automation mindset to eliminate manual processes.
- Clear communicator for explaining issues, writing bug reports, and documentation.
**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/customer-engineer-at-modal-f1443618-4f6d-4e06-a1e2-dd81a57e2d43
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/customer-engineer-at-modal-f1443618-4f6d-4e06-a1e2-dd81a57e2d43