
Forward Deployed Engineer
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Salary analysis
Compared with the selected benchmark ("Company in Remote - United States"), this listing's salary midpoint is about 62% higher. The offer still falls within the benchmark range (€1,667–€19,150). The listed pay band (€14,958–€18,692) is tighter than the benchmark, which suggests lower salary variability. This benchmark is based on 5 comparable listings.
| Market | Lower bound (25th percentile) | Median | Upper bound (75th percentile) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Average: Forward Deployed Engineer | €1,239/per month | €5,486/per month | €14,200/per month |
| Company in Remote - United States | €1,667/per month | €1,910/per month | €19,150/per month |
The Forward Deployed Engineer, Cloud Platform is a senior, high-autonomy individual contributor role that owns the infrastructure foundation making the physical AI platform fast, reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. This role sits with strategic customers and ISV partners, embedded directly inside their engineering teams, and ships production infrastructure that lets customers run real physical AI workloads, not just demos. Your job is to make the platform feel like a product, not a collection of cloud scripts. You will work alongside the Field CTO and the Head of Physical AI, and partner closely with the Physical AI Systems and Platform & Product FDEs. Inside each account, you own end-to-end technical execution: discovery, scoping, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout. Across accounts, you turn repeated infrastructure pain into reusable platform capabilities and partner with Product and Engineering to fold them into the core platform. Your field work is the primary input to the Nebius Physical AI roadmap. You are welcome to work remotely from the United States (SF Bay Area, CA or Austin, TX preferred). Your responsibilities will include: End-to-End Ownership Inside Strategic Accounts: Own discovery, technical scoping, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout for each design partner and ISV engagement, translating ambiguous infrastructure problems into deployable production systems. Cloud Infrastructure & Compute Orchestration: Build and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers customer physical AI workflows. Own compute orchestration for simulation, training, evaluation, inference, and batch workloads, not just what runs, but how it runs at scale. Platform Services: Build platform services for job execution, scheduling, retries, observability, logging, secrets, access control, and cost tracking. Integrate Nebius cloud services into the product experience so infrastructure complexity is abstracted away from customers. Customer Onboarding Infrastructure: Build onboarding infrastructure for pilots, including sandbox environments, dataset storage, workflow execution, and deployment, and make sure early customer workloads run for real: secure, isolated, observable, and reliable. Reliability, Security & Cost: Optimize cloud cost, utilization, performance, and reliability across workloads, and debug infrastructure issues across application, network, storage, compute, and orchestration layers, wherever the failure actually lives. Cross-FDE Partnership: Partner with the Physical AI Systems FDE to support GPU-heavy simulation, training, and evaluation pipelines, and with the Platform & Product FDE to expose infrastructure capabilities through clean APIs, SDKs, and product workflows. Long-Term Architecture: Help define the long-term infrastructure architecture for multi-tenant SaaS, enterprise deployments, and high-throughput physical AI workloads. Pattern Codification & Productization: Turn repeated customer infrastructure pain into reusable platform capabilities. Partner with the Field CTO, Product, and Engineering teams to fold these into the core platform. Treat every engagement as a forcing function for the next ten. Rapid Engineering Velocity: Use modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as primary leverage. Compress build timelines from weeks to days. Treat engineering velocity as a primary success metric. Field Enablement & Feedback Loops: Co-author reference architectures, solution templates, and technical blogs for the broader Nebius field, and maintain structured channels to ensure customer learnings flow back to the Field CTO, Product, and Engineering teams. We expect you to have: 6+ Years of Hands-On Engineering: Strong backend, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience, with at least two years in a customer-facing or deployment-oriented technical role. Distributed Systems & Compute Platforms: Experience building distributed systems, job orchestration, compute platforms, internal developer platforms, or ML infrastructure. Strong Systems Programming: Strong Python, Go, or similar systems and backend programming skills. AI-Native Development Workflow: Fluency in modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as primary leverage to rapidly design, implement, test, debug, and refactor production-quality software. Cloud-Native Toolchain: Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, observability, cloud networking, storage, IAM/RBAC, and infrastructure as code. GPU & HPC Workloads: Familiarity with GPU workloads, batch jobs, training pipelines, inference workloads, or HPC-style compute environments. Cross-Layer Debugging: Proven ability to debug infrastructure issues across application, network, storage, compute, and orchestration layers. Security & Reliability Instincts: Strong instincts for isolation, RBAC, uptime, and traceability on workloads that touch customers. High Agency: You navigate ambiguity without waiting for permission, with a bias toward simple, composable infrastructure that serves real customer workflows over scheduling another meeting. Communication: Strong written and verbal communication. You can hold your own in a technical conversation with a customer CTO and debrief a design partner engagement to the Head of Physical AI. It would be an added bonus if you have: Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer or an equivalent customer-embedded engineering function at a frontier company. Experience with Nebius, AWS, GCP, Azure, Lambda Labs, or other AI cloud infrastructure. Experience with Slurm, Soperator, Kubernetes GPU scheduling, Ray, Argo, Airflow, Metaflow, or similar orchestration tools. Experience with ML training infrastructure, model serving, simulation workloads, or large-scale data pipelines. Experience supporting enterprise customers, design partners, or production pilots. Familiarity with NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, CUDA workloads, Isaac Sim, Omniverse, or simulation-at-scale. Key Employee Benefits: Health Insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families. 401(k) Plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting. Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers. Remote Work Reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet. Disability & Life Insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage. 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 $179,500 - $224,300 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, 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.
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Responsibilities
- End-to-End Ownership Inside Strategic Accounts: Own discovery, technical scoping, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout for each design partner and ISV engagement, translating ambiguous infrastructure problems into deployable production systems.

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|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 398 |
| Remote - Europe | 126 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | 57 |
| London, United Kingdom | 22 |
| Remote - United States | 20 |
| Remote - Finland | 18 |
| Berlin, Germany | 16 |
| Mäntsälä, Finland | 12 |
| Helsinki, Finland | 10 |
| Lappeenranta, Finland | 10 |
| Prague, Czech Republic | 8 |
| Israel | 6 |
| Amsterdam | 5 |
| United Kingdom | 5 |
| Canada | 4 |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 3 |
| Singapore | 3 |
| Remote | 3 |
| Abu Dhabi | 2 |
| New York City, United States | 2 |
| London | 2 |
| Paris, France | 2 |
| Austin, United States | 2 |
| Dubai | 2 |
| France, Paris | 2 |
| Canada, Remote - United States | 1 |
| East London, United Kingdom | 1 |
| Singapore, Singapore | 1 |
| Minnesota, United States | 1 |
| Remote - Israel | 1 |
| Munich, Germany | 1 |
| UK | 1 |
| Berlin | 1 |
| New Jersey, United States | 1 |
| Remote - Germany | 1 |
| Abu Dhabi, Dubai | 1 |
| Prague | 1 |
| New Jersey, US | 1 |
| Remote - United Kingdom | 1 |
| Oklahoma, United States | 1 |
| Finland | 1 |
| California, United States | 1 |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| Czechia | 1 |
| Alabama, US | 1 |
| Béthune, France | 1 |
| Netherlands | 1 |
| Austin, Texas | 1 |
| San Francisco Bay Area, United States | 1 |
| Kansas City, United States | 1 |
| Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France | 1 |
| Philadelphia, United States | 1 |
| Dallas, United States | 1 |
| London, UK | 1 |
| Israel, Israel | 1 |
| Remote - EU | 1 |
| Paris | 1 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Backend Engineer | 308 |
| Software Engineer | 82 |
| Account Executive | 54 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 6 |
| Technical Product Manager | 5 |
| Technical Project Manager | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager | 5 |
| Product Manager | 4 |
| Sales Representative | 4 |
| System Engineer | 4 |
| Data Center Technician | 3 |
| ML Engineer | 3 |
| Data Center Operations Technician | 3 |
| IT Technician | 2 |
| Product Designer | 2 |
| Hypervisor Engineer | 2 |
| Delivery Manager | 2 |
| Backend engineers, Frontend engineers, Site reliability engineers | 2 |
| Open Positions at Nebius | 2 |
| Applied AI Researcher | 2 |
| Head of Channel Marketing | 1 |
| Forward Deployment Engineer | 1 |
| Site Selection & Colocation Manager | 1 |
| Network Engineer | 1 |
| DC IT Support Manager | 1 |
| Application Security Engineer | 1 |
| MEP Engineer | 1 |
| Datacenter IT Technician | 1 |
| Partner Solutions Architect | 1 |
| Customer Engineer | 1 |
| Internal Control Business Partner | 1 |
| Solutions Partner | 1 |
| Senior System Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager | 1 |
| Solutions Architecture Leader | 1 |
| Electrical Engineer | 1 |
| Data Scientist | 1 |
| Compensation Analyst | 1 |
| Network Planning Project Manager | 1 |
| Data Center IT Manager | 1 |
| Technical Account Manager | 1 |
| Security Solutions Engineer | 1 |
| Cloud Solution Architect | 1 |
| AI and ISV Partner Business Development Manager | 1 |
| Structured Cabling Design Engineer | 1 |
| ML Infrastructure Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Applied AI Solutions Engineer | 1 |
| VP of Developer Relations & Community | 1 |
| Senior Support Engineer | 1 |
| Operations Specialist | 1 |
| Project Development Manager | 1 |
| Backend Developer | 1 |
| Data Center Operations Manager | 1 |
| Data Center IT Technician | 1 |
| Mechanical Design Engineer | 1 |
| Generalist | 1 |
| HPC Engineer | 1 |
| Solutions Architect | 1 |
| Data Center Electrical Lead | 1 |
| Pricing Director | 1 |
| Manager, ML Solutions Architecture | 1 |
| Senior Technical Project Manager | 1 |
| Accountant | 1 |
| Product Growth Analytics Lead | 1 |
| Group Product Manager | 1 |
| Infrastructure Security Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Research Scientist | 1 |
| GTM Recruiting Manager | 1 |
| Technical Due Diligence Manager | 1 |
| Technical Support Engineer | 1 |
| Data Engineer | 1 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 1 |
| Mechanical Data Center Technician | 1 |
| Sales Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Software Developer | 1 |
| AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect | 1 |
| Instructional Designer | 1 |
| Vendor Security & Standards Manager | 1 |
| ML Solutions Architect | 1 |
| Physical Security Systems Technician | 1 |
| Mechanical Engineer | 1 |
| Vulnerability Operations Center Lead | 1 |
| IT Risk and Control Manager | 1 |
| VP of Strategic Sales | 1 |
| Human Resources Specialist | 1 |
| Educational Content Author | 1 |
| Offensive Security Lead | 1 |
| Data Center Logistics Specialist | 1 |
| Financial Controller | 1 |
| Applied ML Engineer | 1 |
| Field Technical Lead | 1 |
| Data Center Facilities Manager | 1 |
| Principal | 1 |
| Systems HPC Engineer | 1 |
| Backend Engineers | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 387 |
| Senior | 67 |
| Manager | 14 |
| Executive | 3 |
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