Forward Deployed Engineer - ML

📋 Description Partner with AI companies to optimize production AI workloads on Modal. Contribute to open-source projects (SGLang) and publish technical content. Collaborate with product and sales teams as engineer and product stakeholder. Build trusted relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, ML leads. Conduct technical demos, experiments, and POCs that show Modal's advantages. 🎯 Requirements 2+ years of professional ML engineering experience, incl. inference optimization, training, GPU programming, or ML infra. Familiar with serving (vLLM, SGLang) and training toolchains (slime, verl, TRL). Strong communicator who can discuss architecture and tradeoffs with leadership. Genuine interest in working directly with customers to solve problems. Bonus: side projects, open-source contributions, or published ML/systems work. Willing to work in-person in Stockholm.