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Forward Deployed Engineer - Physical AI Cloud Platform

Nebius · Remote - United States · Remote

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About Nebius

Build and scale faster on the purpose-built AI cloud, engineered from silicon to API. Backed by Accel.

About the role

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Cloud Platform is a senior, high-autonomy individual contributor role that owns the infrastructure foundation making the physical AI platform fast, reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. This role sits with strategic customers and ISV partners, embedded directly inside their engineering teams, and ships production infrastructure that lets customers run real physical AI workloads, not just demos.

What they're looking for

  • Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer or an equivalent customer-embedded engineering function at a frontier company
  • Experience with Nebius, AWS, GCP, Azure, Lambda Labs, or other AI cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with Slurm, Soperator, Kubernetes GPU scheduling, Ray, Argo, Airflow, Metaflow, or similar orchestration tools
  • Experience with ML training infrastructure, model serving, simulation workloads, or large-scale data pipelines
  • Experience supporting enterprise customers, design partners, or production pilots
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, CUDA workloads, Isaac Sim, Omniverse, or simulation-at-scale
More about this role

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.

Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Cloud Platform is a senior, high-autonomy individual contributor role that owns the infrastructure foundation making the physical AI platform fast, reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. This role sits with strategic customers and ISV partners, embedded directly inside their engineering teams, and ships production infrastructure that lets customers run real physical AI workloads, not just demos. Your job is to make...

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