Description
Nebius builds the infrastructure serious AI teams run on - GPU clusters, inference runtimes, agent development environments, data pipelines - all of it purpose-built for the most demanding AI workloads.
As Director of Forward Deployed Engineering, you will build and scale the organization that makes those companies successful on our platform. You will recruit exceptional FDEs, establish the operating model, ensure technical excellence, and turn partner engagements into product improvements and reusable platform assets.
Responsibilities:
- Organization Building & Talent: Build, hire, and develop a world-class Forward Deployed Engineering organization across AI applications, inference, infrastructure, and data.
- Operating Model & Technical Excellence: Establish scalable operating models for partner engagement, technical scoping, architecture reviews, escalation, and delivery health.
- Executive & Ecosystem Leadership: Engage credibly with founders, CTOs, senior engineering leaders, and enterprise technical executives as Nebius's senior FDE leader.
- Field-to-Product & Reusable Leverage: Treat partner engagements as a continuous product discovery engine and convert field learning into roadmap priorities and shipped platform improvements.
Requirements:
- 12-18+ years of experience across engineering, solutions architecture, customer engineering, field engineering, or forward deployed engineering.
- 3-7+ years leading technical field organizations, including experience building a new function or materially scaling an existing team.
- A strong record of hiring, coaching, and scaling Customer Engineering, FDE, Solutions Architecture, or Field CTO teams.
- Earlier hands-on engineering experience in cloud, infrastructure, AI, or developer platforms.
- Technical judgment to review and elevate architectures across AI applications, inference, infrastructure, and data platforms.
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.