Forward Deployed Engineer – Physical AI

Nebius Group

Forward Deployed Engineer focusing on Physical AI systems and workflows for strategic clients. Collaborating with internal teams to ensure successful implementation and model improvement in real-world applications.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeRemote • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $169,900 - $254,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsPythonPyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

End-to-End Ownership Inside Strategic Accounts: Own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout for each design partner and ISV engagement.
Physical AI Workflows & Pipelines: Build and own physical AI workflows across real-world data, synthetic data, model training, evaluation, deployment, and failure capture.
Evaluation & Failure Loops: Design scenario-based evaluation workflows, regression testing, failure analysis, and before-versus-after model comparisons.
Customer Data & Integration: Work with customer datasets including video, images, telemetry, annotations, simulation outputs, and deployment logs.
ISV Integration Development: Stand up custom technical integrations with key Physical AI ecosystem partners.
Pattern Codification & Productization: Identify which prototypes contain generalizable abstractions worth hardening into modular product components.
Rapid Engineering Velocity: Use modern AI coding tools as primary leverage.
Field Enablement Contributions: Co-author high-value technical artifacts that arm the broader Nebius SA and sales field.
Feedback Loops to Product: Maintain structured channels to ensure customer learnings flow back to the Field CTO, Product, and Engineering teams.
Technical Eminence: Represent Nebius at customer engineering deep-dives, ISV technical co-build sessions, and industry events.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ Years of Hands-On Engineering: Experience in applied ML, physical AI, computer vision, robotics, simulation, autonomy, or AI/ML platforms, with at least two years in a customer-facing or deployment-oriented technical role.
Real ML Systems Beyond Notebooks: Demonstrated track record building data pipelines, training pipelines, evaluation harnesses, model versioning, deployment, and monitoring that real users have depended on at meaningful scale.
Strong Python & ML Frameworks: Strong Python engineering skills and hands-on experience with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks.
Evaluation & Model Improvement Instinct: Practical understanding of evaluation, metrics, failure analysis, data quality, and model improvement loops.
Multimodal Data Fluency: Experience working with video, image, telemetry, annotation, and multimodal datasets.
AI-Native Development Workflow: Fluent in modern AI coding tools and treat them as primary leverage.
GPU & Distributed Systems Fluency: Strong working knowledge of GPU compute, distributed training infrastructure, high-throughput storage systems, and orchestration frameworks.
Customer-Facing Engineering Maturity: Comfort working directly inside customer environments, shipping code on someone else's infrastructure.
Prototype Mindset: Strong instinct for the 80/20 of prototype engineering.
High Agency: Navigate ambiguity in complex organizations without waiting for permission.
Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

Applied MLPhysical AIComputer VisionData PipelinesModel VersioningDeploymentEvaluation HarnessesFailure AnalysisModel ImprovementAI-Native Development Workflow

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationHigh Agency