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Modal Labs, Inc. operates Modal, a serverless cloud and AI infrastructure platform for developers running inference, training, batch processing, and isolated sandboxes.

New York City, United States
About Modal

Modal provides code-first, elastic CPU/GPU compute infrastructure for AI workloads, including model inference, fine-tuning and training, large-scale batch jobs, and secure ephemeral execution environments.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will research and develop methods for post-training, large-scale model optimization, and inference. You will improve long-context and long-horizon model capabilities, inference efficiency, reliability, and robustness for real-world deployments.

Requirements

  • Research accomplishments in reinforcement learning, machine learning, foundation models, or related fields
  • Experience with large-scale training and inference infrastructure
  • Experience with distributed systems and multi-node GPU clusters
  • Experience developing, training, optimizing, or deploying large-scale models
  • Research publications at leading venues
  • Ability to work effectively across research and engineering

Responsibilities

  • Develop techniques for large-scale model training, optimization, and inference
  • Extend models to long-context and long-horizon tasks
  • Improve inference efficiency, reliability, and robustness

Benefits

  • Equity
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