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Nebius Group

Forward Deployed Engineer – Physical AI

Nebius Group

. Own discovery, technical scoping, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout for strategic customer and ISV engagements .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating cloud infrastructure, with a focus on distributed systems, job orchestration, and AI-native development. Proficient in debugging complex infrastructure issues and optimizing performance, cost, and reliability in multi-tenant SaaS environments.

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Cloud Infrastructure EngineeringDistributed Systems DevelopmentPython ProgrammingKubernetes ManagementAI-Native Development

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Hard Skills
Backend EngineeringPlatform EngineeringJob OrchestrationInfrastructure as CodeDebuggingCost OptimizationPerformance TuningMulti-Tenant SaaS ArchitectureAI Coding ToolsGPU Workloads
Soft Skills
Strong Written CommunicationStrong Verbal Communication
Tools & Technologies
KubernetesCI/CDCloud NetworkingIAM/RBACNVIDIA GPU InfrastructureClaude CodeCodexCursorSlurmRay
Industry Keywords
SREPhysical AIEnterprise DeploymentsHPC-Style ComputeML Infrastructure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonRayGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own discovery, technical scoping, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout for strategic customer and ISV engagements
  • Build and operate cloud infrastructure for simulation, training, evaluation, inference, and batch workloads
  • Build platform services for job execution, scheduling, retries, observability, logging, secrets, access control, and cost tracking
  • Integrate Nebius cloud services into customer product experiences
  • Build secure, isolated, observable, and reliable onboarding infrastructure for pilots
  • Optimize cloud cost, utilization, performance, and reliability
  • Debug issues across application, network, storage, compute, and orchestration layers
  • Partner with Physical AI Systems and Platform & Product FDEs through APIs, SDKs, and product workflows
  • Help define infrastructure architecture for multi-tenant SaaS, enterprise deployments, and high-throughput physical AI workloads
  • Convert repeated customer infrastructure problems into reusable platform capabilities
  • Use AI coding tools to accelerate production engineering
  • Co-author reference architectures, solution templates, and technical blogs; maintain feedback loops with Field CTO, Product, and Engineering teams

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience in backend, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE
  • At least 2 years in a customer-facing or deployment-oriented technical role
  • Experience building distributed systems, job orchestration, compute platforms, internal developer platforms, or ML infrastructure
  • Strong Python, Go, or similar systems and backend programming skills
  • Fluency in Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor for AI-native development
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, observability, cloud networking, storage, IAM/RBAC, and infrastructure as code
  • Familiarity with GPU workloads, batch jobs, training pipelines, inference workloads, or HPC-style compute environments
  • Proven ability to debug infrastructure issues across application, network, storage, compute, and orchestration layers
  • Strong instincts for isolation, RBAC, uptime, and traceability
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and provide proof of employment eligibility
  • Additional bonus experience includes Forward Deployed Engineering, Nebius/AWS/GCP/Azure/Lambda Labs, Slurm/Soperator/Kubernetes GPU scheduling/Ray/Argo/Airflow/Metaflow, ML training infrastructure, enterprise customers, NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, CUDA, Isaac Sim, or Omniverse

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive compensation
  • Career growth and learning opportunities
  • Flexibility and ownership
  • Collaborative and innovative culture
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
  • International environment and talented teams
  • Trust and real ownership
  • Opportunity to shape the future of AI