Analytics Engineer

About the Data Team:

We’re growing our Data team and are looking for our first few key hires to build self-serve data tools and drive business strategy in the right direction.

The mission of the Modal Data team is to make it easy to track company goals, make evidence-backed decisions, and prioritize the right work. We do this via:

• Self-serve AI analytics tools (Hex, Snowflake)

• Embedding with teams as a “data adviser”, providing strategic analysis and consulting

What You'll Do:

• Contribute to building the most modern analytics stack in Data today to support AI-driven self-serve analysis, key metrics tracking, and external customer reporting

• Influence work on new products like LLM Inference Endpoints through product analytics tracking

• Identify millions of dollars of cost savings and optimization across our tools and financial operations

• Write data pipelines that power the operations of our business, such as our cloud compute economics or sales comp

• Create foundational datasets that can be used by people and AI tools to answer questions around product use cases, financial reporting, and marketing campaigns

What You Should Have:

• SQL fluency, Python proficiency

• Professional experience with at least 2 of the following tools: Snowflake, dbt, dlt, Modal, Hex, Posthog

• Ability to extend their work beyond just data reporting and into action and impact

• High attention to detail

• Excellent and precise communicator

• Strong personability and relationship building skills
  

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AI products, especially LLM inference and sandboxes

• Experience in fin ops, fraud, sales ops, or risk, especially in the context of AI (e.g. token cost optimization)

• Project management skills

• Strong presence in the data community online and offline