Staff Research Engineer - LLM Inference & Serving
modal labsNew York (NY)
Staff Research Engineer - LLM Inference & Serving
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modal labsNew York (NY)
SENIORITY
Mid
About the role
Modal Labs is building a platform that covers the entire life of an LLM—from training to deployment and observation. We seek a research‑leaning engineer with a systems background to own inference bets, optimize autoscaling, and ship ideas back into production. Work in person in NYC or San Francisco, collaborate with customers and labs, and help turn frontier serving techniques into usable primitives and products with measurable impact on latency and quality.
Before you apply
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A number in mind
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Your notice period
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