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Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference

Modal · New York, San Francisco

Databases & Query EnginesPerformance & ObservabilityStorage & FilesystemsVirtualization & Containers

Summary

Modal is hiring a Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference in New York. The role focuses on databases & storage, virtualization & containers, graphics, gpu & compute, low-latency & performance.

Responsibilities as stated

  • They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
  • Own end-to-end inference research bets: speculative decoding, disaggregated prefill/decode, quantization (FP8, INT4), KV-cache and memory management, autoscaling for spiky serverless traffic, and whatever else the research agenda calls for.
  • We already run elastic inference, sandboxes, distributed volumes, and multi-node training, and we control the infrastructure underneath, so the serving stack is ours to shape rather than something we resell.

Location, employment, and compensation

  • Location. New York, San Francisco
  • Employment. unknown
  • Compensation. Not stated on the source. NearMetal does not estimate compensation.
  • How to apply. On the company’s own posting. NearMetal does not accept applications.

Why this is filed as systems software

  • They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.
  • Own end-to-end inference research bets: speculative decoding, disaggregated prefill/decode, quantization (FP8, INT4), KV-cache and memory management, autoscaling for spiky serverless traffic, and whatever else the research agenda calls for.
  • We already run elastic inference, sandboxes, distributed volumes, and multi-node training, and we control the infrastructure underneath, so the serving stack is ours to shape rather than something we resell.

Source and corrections

This summary was written from the company’s own posting. NearMetal does not reproduce the full description and does not accept applications.

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