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How Modal hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
266 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Modal scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 40 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 266 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Modal is an AI infrastructure company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2021. It provides a serverless cloud platform featuring sub-second cold starts and instant autoscaling that enables developers to run GPU-accelerated workloads, including model inference and fine-tuning, using a Python-native SDK. The company operates a globally distributed compute network designed for AI applications and serves a diverse range of industries such as generative AI and biotechnology.
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Modal, Fireworks, and Baseten gain cost advantage with Nvidia and AMD chips for Kimi K3
Modal, Fireworks AI, and Baseten leverage Nvidia GB300 and AMD MI350X chips to serve Kimi K3 at a fraction of the cost of direct Chinese API
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Using GLM Flash on Cadenya
Using GLM 5.3 Flash on Cadenya offers a great balance of token throughput and cost for building agentic functionality.
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Inside Modal's rise: sandboxes, sub-second cold starts, and what the SEC paperwork reveals
Welcome to the 13th edition of What Runs AI, a newsletter where I do a deep dive on an AI infrastructure company that is powering the new AI world.
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Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak
We're building new Portals for audio, network, VPNs, and more!
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But wait, there's more - rogue OpenAI agent accessed Modal before Hugging Face
The rogue AI gained access to four different companies. Earlier this month, a rogue OpenAI agent escaped its locked-down testing environment and hacked...
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Kimi K3 by Moonshot now available on Modal Modal Blog
Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter multimodal model by Moonshot, along with a custom-trained DFlash speculator, is now available on Modal.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Modal over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
60
Postings analysed
42
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Rust17%
Python14%
SQL10%
C++5%
Frameworks & libraries
Seaborn98%
Matplotlib98%
SGLang7%
CUDA5%
Databases
Snowflake7%
ClickHouse2%
PostgreSQL2%
Redis2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux29%
Kubernetes12%
AWS10%
Amazon S37%
AI & ML
LLM21%
Flash Attention2%
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60 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$280k
Typical range
$145k – $400k
Open positions
41
32
Jobs
Intern
3.1%
Junior
6.3%
Middle
12.5%
Senior
9.4%
Staff
62.5%
Architect
6.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Junior | 2 | $198k | $145k – $250k |
| Middle | 4 | $258k | $200k – $275k |
| Senior | 3 | $300k | $190k – $330k |
| Staff | 20 | $300k | $200k – $350k |
| Architect | 2 | $340k | $280k – $400k |
Highest paying role
Regional Director
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Modal
By role, level and city, against the market · 41 jobs with pay
People
Taylor Baldwin
Executive Officer, Director
Paul Butler
Executive Officer, Director
Akshat Bubna
Executive Officer
Erik Bernhardsson
Executive Officer, Director
Seth Zelnick
Executive Officer
Patrick Chase
Director
Sarah Catanzaro
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
42
13 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
216 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
21% ▲
Product
13% ▲
HR
13% ▲
Backend
8% ▲
Legal
8% ▲
Marketing
8% ▲
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added HIPAA to stack
Oct 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Oct 2026
Added ROCm to stack
Oct 2026
Added dbt to stack
Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack
Sep 2026
Added NVLink to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
3
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
32 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 41% engineering 3% remote 50-200 est. staff $271k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, HR, Security
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
23 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 48% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff $285k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Product, Marketing
Stockholm
Sweden
Engineering / R&D
6 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff $272k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Leadership, Analytics
London
United Kingdom
Regional office
5 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $314k Avg Salary
hires for Product, HR, Sales
Jobs
$250k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Stockholm
Rust
Amazon S3
Linux
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$200k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time • New York • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
ETL/ELT
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$150k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Stockholm
Python
Go
AI Agents
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$220k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Rust
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
ROCm
DevOps
Linux
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$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • New York • Stockholm • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
dbt
LLM
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$250k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco • New York
Python
NVLink
DevOps
Linux
BGP
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$250k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco • New York
Rust
Amazon S3
Linux
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$200k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • New York
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$300k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
LLM
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
DevOps
Linux
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$150k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • New York
SQL
LLM
DevOps
Kubernetes
Linux
Cybersecurity
SIEM
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$150k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • New York • San Francisco
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
LLM
Post-training
Machine Learning
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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$150k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • New York • San Francisco
Flash Attention
Quantization
Multimodal AI
SGLang
LLM
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
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