Market landscapes / Model Serving & Compute / LLM & Model Inference Serving
Modal
Cloud infrastructure for AI applications. Modal provides a platform for teams to develop, train, and serve AI models at scale, handling everything from LLM inference to batch processing across a multi-cloud capacity pool.
LLM & Model Inference Serving201-500 peoplemodal.com ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From Modal's own jobs board, checked every week.
Hiring its own recruiters. With a talent partner, GTM, a talent partner, technical and a talent programs manager on the list, it is preparing to hire at a faster pace.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
12 of the 34 active companies in LLM & Model Inference Serving are advertising roles. baseten has the most, with 101.
Who Modal competes with
The other active companies we file under LLM & Model Inference Serving, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
Running models in production, and serving them at speed and scale. Inference is where the cost of AI lands once something is actually live, so every dollar spent here gets looked at closely.
We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.
Our talent report for this sector shows how Modal's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
I am Ben Jackson. I map this market, and I hire the commercial teams inside it: sales, marketing, product and delivery.
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