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Head of Forward Deployed Engineering - Ecosystem

Nebius · United States · On-site

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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

Nebius builds the infrastructure serious AI teams run on - GPU clusters, inference runtimes, agent development environments, data pipelines - all of it purpose-built for the most demanding AI workloads. What we are now building is the ecosystem function that ensures the world's best AI companies are successful on Nebius.

What they're looking for

  • Strong relationships across the AI and cloud ecosystem
  • Public technical leadership through talks, workshops, reference architectures, open source projects, or developer advocacy
  • Built a Forward Deployed Engineering, Customer Engineering, or Field Engineering organization from zero to one
  • Scaled a technical field organization across regions or ecosystem domains without lowering the hiring or engineering bar
  • Experience as a founder, VP Engineering, Field CTO, Head of Customer Engineering, or early FDE leader
  • Led production architecture and execution for demanding AI application, training, inference, or platform workloads
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.

Nebius builds the infrastructure serious AI teams run on - GPU clusters, inference runtimes, agent development environments, data pipelines - all of it purpose-built for the most demanding AI workloads. What we are now building is the ecosystem function that ensures the world's best AI companies are successful on Nebius.

As Director of Forward Deployed Engineering , you will build and scale the organization that makes those companies successful on our...

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