Forward Deployed Engineer - Physical AI
AI summary of the role
Senior, high-autonomy Forward Deployed Engineer owning production cloud infrastructure for strategic customers and ISV partners running physical AI workloads.
What you’ll do
- Own discovery, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout for strategic accounts.
- Orchestrate compute for physical AI simulation, training, evaluation, inference, and batch workloads.
- Build platform services for scheduling, observability, access control, secrets, and cost tracking.
- Debug and optimize reliability, security, performance, utilization, and cost across infrastructure layers.
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of backend, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience, including 2+ years in a customer-facing or deployment-oriented technical role.
- Experience building distributed systems, compute platforms, job orchestration, internal developer platforms, or ML infrastructure.
- Strong Python, Go, or similar systems and backend programming skills.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, observability, networking, storage, IAM/RBAC, and infrastructure as code.
Technologies
Kubernetes · Python · Go · Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · Slurm · Ray · Argo · CUDA
About Nebius
Full-stack AI cloud infrastructure platform delivering GPU compute and software to hyperscalers and enterprises without requiring in-house AI/ML teams.
Public · 1000–2000 people
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