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Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems
$180K–$240K
New York +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2025
- Location
- New York
San Francisco - Experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Partners with AI companies to design, migrate, and deploy production infrastructure on Modal while contributing to the platform.
What you'll do
- Architect and deploy large-scale production workloads; lead customer discovery and architecture sessions.
- Design migration paths from existing cloud infrastructure to Modal and run demos, experiments, and proofs of concept.
- Collaborate with product and sales teams and build relationships with technical leaders.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Hands-on cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and container orchestration.
- Familiarity with distributed systems architecture, data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong technical communication and willingness to work in person in New York City, San Francisco, or Stockholm.
Nice to have
- Experience leading large-scale migrations.
- Open-source contributions or notable side projects.
Pay
$180K – $240K (base salary)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
AI focus
Supports AI companies and foundation labs by building and deploying production infrastructure for their workloads.
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