Forward Deployed Engineer - ML (London)

The role

Forward Deployed ML Engineers partner with AI companies and foundation model labs to optimize production AI workloads. You will architect workloads for LLM serving, model training, audio pipelines, and scientific computing on Modal.

What you will do

• Work hands-on with companies to architect and optimize production AI workloads on Modal
• Contribute to open-source projects and publish technical content
• Collaborate with product and sales teams as an engineer and product stakeholder
• Build trusted relationships with technical leaders at companies doing frontier AI work
• Conduct technical demos, experiments, and proofs of concept

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of professional ML engineering experience
• Familiarity with serving (e.g., vLLM, SGLang) and training (e.g., slime, verl, TRL) toolchains
• Strong communicator who can discuss technical architecture and tradeoffs
• Genuine interest in working directly with customers
• Willing to work in person in London

Nice to have

• Side projects, open-source contributions, or published work in ML or systems performance

About the company

Modal is building a new infrastructure layer for AI. The company has passed $1B in annualized run rate and includes creators of popular open-source projects.