Forward Deployed Engineer – Physical AI Cloud Platform

Cloud EngineerCloud EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 1 moreAll locations: California | Texas

Posted

3 days ago

Salary

$179.5K - $224.3K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesPythonGo

Job Description

Forward Deployed Engineer – Physical AI Cloud Platform

Nebius Group

• End-to-End Ownership Inside Strategic Accounts: Own discovery, technical scoping, infrastructure design, build, and production rollout for each design partner and ISV engagement. • Cloud Infrastructure & Compute Orchestration: Build and operate cloud infrastructure that powers customer physical AI workflows. • Platform Services: Build platform services for job execution, scheduling, retries, observability, logging, secrets, access control, and cost tracking. • Customer Onboarding Infrastructure: Build onboarding infrastructure for pilots including sandbox environments and secure execution. • Reliability, Security & Cost: Optimize cloud cost, utilization, performance, and reliability across workloads. • Cross-FDE Partnership: Partner with Physical AI Systems FDE to support heavy simulation pipelines. • Long-Term Architecture: Define the long-term infrastructure architecture for multi-tenant SaaS and high-throughput physical AI workloads. • Pattern Codification & Productization: Turn customer infrastructure pain into reusable platform capabilities. • Rapid Engineering Velocity: Use modern AI coding tools to compress build timelines. • Field Enablement & Feedback Loops: Co-author reference architectures, solution templates, and technical blogs for broader field support.

Job Requirements

  • 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: Navigate ambiguity without waiting for permission, with a bias toward simple, composable infrastructure that serves real customer workflows.
  • Communication: Strong written and verbal communication for technical discussions.

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.

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