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Last seen by MeritLog September 12, 2026Source: AshbySource version: ashby-public-job-posting-v1

MeritLog read this listing from Modal's Ashby job board and last checked it on September 12, 2026.

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Job details

Work model: On-site
Salary: $150K - $350K
Location: New York
Company website: modal.com

Hiring context

How this role compares at Modal

Modal has 31 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 6 job families, and 8 of them are in data & analytics. 28 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 90%.

This role's posted range of $150K - $350K sits above 65% of the 26 other Modal roles quoted over the same currency and period.

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What the role asks for

What they're asking for

A PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field. Candidates with a master’s degree and significant research or industry experience will also be considered.EducationPreferred
A demonstrated record of research accomplishments in reinforcement learning, machine learning, foundation models, or related fields.SkillPreferred
Experience with large-scale training and inference infrastructure, including distributed systems and multi-node GPU clusters.SkillPreferred
Experience developing, training, optimizing, or deploying state-of-the-art large-scale models.SkillPreferred
First-author publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, CVPR, UAI, JMLR, or TMLR.SkillPreferred
A mission-driven mindset and a strong desire to translate research advances into meaningful product impact.SkillPreferred
A collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively across research and engineering teams.SkillPreferred

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Job description

ABOUT US: AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable https://modal.com/blog/lovable-case-study, Ramp https://modal.com/blog/how-ramp-built-a-full-context-background-coding-agent-on-modal, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. 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. We recently raised a $355M Series C https://modal.com/blog/modal-series-c at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn,Luigi https://github.com/spotify/luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. THE ROLE: We're building a platform that covers the whole life of an LLM: training it, deploying it, and observing it in production. We already run multi-node training, elastic inference, sandboxes, and distributed volumes, and we control the infrastructure underneath. We’re looking for research depth in post-training to sit alongside our systems and product work. WHAT YOU'LL DO: We are looking for research scientists with a strong track record in reinforcement learning, machine learning, and foundation models, including large language and multimodal models, to join our research team. This role is well suited to candidates interested in improving existing methods and developing new techniques for large-scale model training, optimization, and inference, extending models to long-context and long-horizon tasks, and improving inference-time efficiency, reliability, and robustness in high-stakes real-world deployments. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: - A PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field. Candidates with a master’s degree and significant research or industry experience will also be considered. - A demonstrated record of research accomplishments in reinforcement learning, machine learning, foundation models, or related fields. - Experience with large-scale training and inference infrastructure, including distributed systems and multi-node GPU clusters. - Experience developing, training, optimizing, or deploying state-of-the-art large-scale models. - First-author publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL, CVPR, UAI, JMLR, or TMLR. - A mission-driven mindset and a strong desire to translate research advances into meaningful product impact. - A collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively across research and engineering teams.

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