# Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Machines at Modal

- Company: Modal
- What the company does: Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and AI Grant.
- Company website: https://modal.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $270K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/2013d870-f981-455e-bb34-56224edb58a8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/modal-member-of-technical-staff-lead-machines/

## About the role

We are looking for a strong technical lead to guide the engineers designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform. You'll lead the team responsible for Modal's machines layer: the fleet of bare metal and cloud hosts that every Function, Sandbox, and training job runs on, and the control plane that provisions, images, monitors, and repairs them.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
- 3+ years of direct people management experience, ideally leading a team of engineers through project planning, growth, and performance conversations
- Experience operating large fleets of physical hardware at scale (bare metal provisioning, BMC/IPMI, PXE and network boot, firmware) or building the control planes that manage them (the more challenges you've worked through, the better)
- Strong cloud skills
- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, drivers, networking, file systems, containers, etc.)
- Experience working with hardware and colocation providers, including hardware acceptance testing and benchmarking

Tags: Engineering