Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Cloud Platform (Remote)

Nebius; United States; On-site; USD 179,500 - 224,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan

Parental Leave

Remote Work Reimbursement

Disability & Life Insurance

Job summary

Nebius is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end technical delivery inside strategic accounts, embedding with customer engineering teams to deploy production AI workloads. You will build scalable cloud infrastructure, orchestrate compute, and develop platform services to abstract complexity from customers.

The role emphasizes strong Python/Go skills, modern AI tooling usage, and deep collaboration with Field CTO and product teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on engineering in backend/cloud infra or SRE.
• Experience with customer-facing or deployment-focused roles.
• Experience building distributed compute platforms and ML infra.
• Fluency in Python, Go, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design, build, and rollout for strategic accounts.
• Build and operate cloud infrastructure powering AI workflows.
• Develop platform services for job execution, scheduling, and observability.
• Create onboarding infra for pilots, sandbox environments, and datasets.
• Optimize cost, performance, and reliability across workloads.
• Collaborate with Field CTO and Product teams to expose APIs and workflows.
• Co-author reference architectures and technical blogs for field teams.
• Leverage AI coding tools to accelerate development timelines.
• Support multi-tenant SaaS architectures and enterprise deployments.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to propagate reusable capabilities.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Distributed Systems

Systems Programming

AI Coding Tools

Cloud-Native Tooling

GPU Workloads

Debugging Across Layers

Security & Reliability

Strong Communication

Customer-Facing Experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud Networking

Storage Systems

IAM/RBAC

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Nebius is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end technical delivery inside strategic accounts, embedding with customer engineering teams to deploy production AI workloads. You will build scalable cloud infrastructure, orchestrate compute, and develop platform services to abstract complexity from customers.

The role emphasizes strong Python/Go skills, modern AI tooling usage, and deep collaboration with Field CTO and product teams.