Senior Applied AI Solutions Engineer

Nebius; Amsterdam (VA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth

Flexible working arrangements

Collaborative culture

Impactful AI projects

International environment

Job summary

Nebius, a Nasdaq-listed Amsterdam-based AI cloud leader, is seeking a hands-on ML engineer who can prototype advanced AI use cases and accelerate customers from POC to production. You will split time between field work with customers and building new AI features for the Nebius platform, focusing on practical, scalable solutions.

You will work at the intersection of ML engineering and product impact, turning cutting-edge research into concrete platform directions while collaborating with sales,

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise ML teams or customer-facing ML engineering roles.
• Fluent in the modern ML stack (PyTorch, HuggingFace, CUDA, Kubernetes for ML, MLflow, vector databases).
• Ability to read papers and implement them for production use.
• Ability to explain activation checkpointing tradeoffs to ML engineers and CTOs.
• Experience deploying ML models and workflows to production at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build prototypes and demos across Nebius product portfolio to support sales, product, and engineering teams.
• Lead hands-on onboarding for new customers during POC and validation phases.
• Develop applied AI prototypes and document findings as product recommendations.
• Provide grounded, actionable feedback to influence the product roadmap and customer outcomes.
• Create reusable technical assets (notebooks, reference architectures, benchmarks) to reduce onboarding friction.

Skills

Fine-tune models

Distributed training

Production RAG

Agentic pipelines

ML on GPUs

Tools

PyTorch

HuggingFace

CUDA

Kubernetes

MLflow

Vector databases

Job description

About Nebius

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 Role

AI is moving faster than any single product team can track. Nebius is expanding across serverless, databases, MLflow, MLOps, Physical AI, and HCLS — and customers arriving with complex, real‑world ML workloads need more than documentation. This role exists to close that gap: someone who can prototype what’s possible, accelerate customers through their first 90 days, and feed hard‑won field insight back into the product roadmap.

This role sits at the intersection of deep ML engineering and product impact. You’ll spend roughly half your time in the field — helping new customers move from POC to production, running technical onboarding, and working hands‑on through their ML stack. The other half you’ll spend building — prototyping applied AI use cases that show what’s possible on the platform, going deep on emerging techniques before they’re mainstream, and turning that expertise into concrete product direction.

This is not a presales role. You get your hands dirty every day.

What Success Looks Like In 12 Months

• The product and sales teams have a library of working, polished demos they reach for on calls
• Enterprise customers you’ve touched have meaningfully faster time‑to‑value than those you haven’t
• At least 2–3 product changes were shipped because of feedback you originated
• The team understands where applied AI is heading 6–12 months from now, partly because you told them

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Build prototypes and demos across the product portfolio — serverless inference, databases, MLflow, MLOps, and vertical use cases in Physical AI and HCLS — that become assets for sales, product, and engineering teams
• Support new customers hands‑on through POC design, technical onboarding, and validation; act as the bridge between their ML team and the platform during the critical first months
• Go deep on emerging applied AI — new training techniques, inference optimizations, agentic architectures, new frameworks — and turn findings into working prototypes, writeups, and product recommendations
• Feed the product roadmap with specific, grounded feedback; be the voice of "here’s what broke in three customer POCs last month and here’s what needs to change"
• Develop reusable technical assets — notebooks, reference architectures, benchmark results — that reduce onboarding friction at scale

We Expect You To Have

• You’ve fine‑tuned large models, debugged distributed training jobs, built production RAG or agentic pipelines, and optimized inference on GPU infrastructure — not just read about it
• You’re fluent in the modern ML stack: PyTorch, HuggingFace, CUDA fundamentals, Kubernetes for ML, MLflow or equivalent, vector databases
• You’ve worked with enterprise ML teams — whether as a solutions engineer, customer engineer, or an ML engineer who collaborated closely with customers
• You read papers and implement them — not for credit, but because it’s how you stay sharp
• You communicate with calibration: you can explain activation checkpointing tradeoffs to an ML engineer in the morning and the cost implication to a CTO in the afternoon

It Will Be An Added Bonus If You Have

• Experience in any of our vertical domains: Physical AI / robotics / simulation, HCLS (drug discovery, medical imaging, clinical NLP), or enterprise AI application development
• Familiarity with MLOps at scale (Kubeflow, Metaflow, Argo, Ray)
• Prior work at a cloud provider or AI infrastructure company
• You’ve shared technical work publicly — notebooks, talks, blog posts that people actually use

Who Thrives Here

You’ll thrive here if you’re energized by variety — one day deep in a customer’s MLOps stack, the next building a demo from scratch. You want your technical depth to influence product decisions, not just close deals.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth within Nebius.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• A dynamic and collaborative work environment that values initiative and innovation.

We’re growing and expanding our products every day. If you’re up to the challenge and are excited about AI and ML as much as we are, join us!

Pay Transparency

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Actual compensation will be determined based on job‑related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, the level at which the candidate is hired, and geographic location, consistent with applicable law.

Base Compensation Range: $200—$350,000 USD

Benefits & 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

What’s It Like To Work At Nebius

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.