Field CTO, Financial Services AI Infrastructure

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.

The Field CTO for Financial Services is a senior technical leadership role at the intersection of production GPU infrastructure and the regulated business of financial services. You will lead the technical side of the vertical: the architecture conversation with CTOs and heads of research infrastructure, the technical content of regulated-buyer diligence, the reference architectures for financial workloads, and the product requirements that come out of the field.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Executive Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical face of Nebius to financial services customers, partners, and ecosystem stakeholders.
• Lighthouse Deal Support: Partner with Sales leadership on strategic financial services deals.
• Regulated-Buyer Diligence: Work with Security, GRC, and Legal to turn our SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications into answers that third-party risk teams accept.
• Architectural Guidance: Define reference architectures for financial workloads.
• Technical Product Strategy: Translate what you learn in accounts into prioritized, evidence-backed requirements for Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams.
• Field Enablement: Act as a force multiplier for the sales organization by creating the technical narrative, reference architectures, and training materials.
• Ecosystem & M&A: Partner with ecosystem vendors to identify integration opportunities and evaluate potential technical M&A targets.
• Team Building: Build and lead forward deployed engineers as the vertical grows.

We expect you to have:

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, distributed systems, or a closely related technical domain.
• Prior experience in a senior technical leadership role.
• Dual Competency: You can draw a distributed system on a whiteboard for engineers and explain its value and risk profile to a CIO or a Chief Risk Officer.
• GTM Fluency: Experience partnering with Sales to close large enterprise deals.
• Product-Minded Leadership: You have defined requirements from field evidence and shaped platform strategy.
• Mastery of the Stack: Expert-level, production-grade knowledge of GPU architectures, Kubernetes and Slurm orchestration.
• Inference Optimization: You understand the nuances of model serving.
• Financial Services Fluency: First-hand experience in at least one of capital markets and quant research infrastructure.
• Builder Mentality: You arrive with your own point of view on where financial institutions are heading with AI infrastructure.
• Public Technical Voice: Conference talks, writing, or open-source work that shows credibility with engineering and executive audiences.
• Communication: Strong executive presence.
• Comfort in Ambiguity: Experience operating in fast-moving environments.

Why Nebius:

• Build Solutions: You will shape how financial institutions run AI in production on a specialized AI cloud.
• Scale: Opportunity to help build the Financial Services vertical from the ground up.
• Frontier Technology: Work at the frontier of AI infrastructure.
• Strategic Impact: Real influence over product direction.
• Ownership: Join a team that values technical depth.
• Mission: Help define how intelligence moves from the data center into trading desks.

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

Key employee benefits in the US:

• 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.
• Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Disability & life insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage.