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Does Modal ask for AI skills in its job ads?

Live dataFrom its Ashby job board · Last updated 29 October 2026

Below average

20%of Modal’s 40 open roles ask the candidate to use AI

  1. Modal 20%
  2. All 1,333 companies 25%
Rank
#455 of 786
Open roles
40
Ask for AI
8
As a requirement
3%
Tool named most
None

How many Modal job ads ask for AI

  • 20% of Modal’s 40 open roles ask the candidate to use AI in the work: 8 job ads, 5 points below the 25% across 1,333 software companies.
  • Modal ranks 455 of 786 companies with 10 or more open roles.
  • It asks most in sales ads: 3 of 6.
  • Its ads that ask for AI do not name a specific tool.

Which Modal roles ask for AI skills

  1. Engineering (18) 17%
  2. Sales (6) 50%
  3. People and recruiting (4) 0%
  4. Data (3) 0%
  5. Operations (3) 33%
Share of Modal’s open roles in each role that ask for AI. Roles with 3 or more open roles.Source: Lemonsignal

What Modal’s job ads say about AI

  • “You have experience with AI tools and good instincts about where they help and where they quietly introduce risk.”

    Legal Operations Lead

  • “You're hands on building with AI tools — not just consuming workflows that were built for you.”

    Account Manager

  • “You’ll build detections, investigation tooling, and response capabilities that scale with our infrastructure, using AI where it meaningfully improves signal, investigation speed, and operational effectiveness.”

    Detection and Response Engineer

How we counted AI skills in Modal’s job ads

From the 40 open roles on Modal’s public Ashby job board on 29 October 2026. An ad counts when it asks the person to use AI in their own work. The full method. Work at Modal and see something wrong? Tell us.

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