Technical Writer

Modal; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is hiring a technical writer to craft engaging, informative content for our developer audience, focusing on AI infrastructure and rapid developments.

In this role, you will write short- and long-form blog posts, use a data-first approach to define our AI/SEO roadmap, and own the long-term organization of user resources.

You'll partner with developer relations, product marketing, and engineers to document products, publish updates, and contribute to tutorials, references, and explanations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in technical writing or adjacent roles.
• Strong technical background with prior software engineering experience.
• Ability to understand and explain low-level technical concepts in ML, networking, filesystems, and container technology.
• Excellent narrative, writing, and communication skills.
• Detail-obsessed and able to nail down technical concepts in clear, compelling ways.
• Ability to ship fast and leverage AI tools to accelerate work without compromising quality.

Responsibilities

• Write short-form and long-form blog posts that engage, educate, and build domain authority in the AI infrastructure space.
• Leverage a data-first approach to stay ahead of trends and define the AI/SEO content roadmap.
• Own the long-term organization of user resources across guides, tutorials, references, explanations, and more.
• Partner with developer relations, product marketing, and engineers to document products and contribute to updates and documentation.

Skills

Technical writing

Software engineering

ML concepts

Networking basics

Filesystems

Clear communication

AI-assisted writing

Job description

About Us:

Modal is building the serverless compute platform to support the next generation of AI companies. In order to deliver the developer experience we wanted, we went deep and built our own infrastructure—including our own custom file system, container runtime, scheduler, container image builder, and much more.

We’re a small team based out of New York, Stockholm and San Francisco. In just one year, we’ve reached 8-figure revenue, tripled our headcount, scaled to support thousands of GPUs, and raised over $32M in funding.

Working at Modal means joining one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure organizations at an early stage, with many opportunities to grow within the company. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g. Seaborn, Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.

The Role:

We’re hiring a technical writer to help us craft engaging, informative content for our developer audience. In a world where content generation is zero-cost, we think there is significant upside to publishing curated, well-researched content that educates our audience on all the rapid developments happening in the AI and AI infrastructure spaces. High-quality technical content is one of our biggest channels at the moment, and we’re excited to bring on someone who can help scale that to the next level.

In this role, you will:

• Write both short-form and long-form blog posts that are engaging, educational, and help us build domain authority in the AI infrastructure space
• Leverage a data-first approach to stay ahead of trends and topics in our space and define our AI/SEO content roadmap
• Own the long-term organization of our user resources across conceptual guides, tutorials, references, explanations, and more
• Partner with developer relations, product marketing, and engineers to understand our products and contribute to documentation, product updates, and more

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in technical writing or adjacent roles
• Strong technical background, with prior software engineering experience
• Ability to understand and explain low-level technical concepts in areas like ML, networking, filesystems, container technology
• Excellent narrative, writing, and communication skills
• Detail-obsessed and able to nail down technical concepts in clear, compelling ways
• Ability to ship fast and leverage AI tools to accelerate work without compromising quality

Compensation

$130K – $250K Offers Equity