Forward Deployed Engineer - Physical AI

The role

Nebius is building the cloud infrastructure that will power the next generation of Physical AI: robotics, autonomous systems, simulation, world models, and embodied intelligence operating in the real world.

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Physical AI Systems is a senior, high-autonomy individual contributor role that owns the technical bridge between customer data, AI models, simulation workflows, evaluation systems, and real-world deployment feedback. This role sits with strategic customers and ISV partners, embedded directly inside their engineering teams, and ships production software that turns messy real-world physical AI problems into reliable, measurable platform workflows.

You will work alongside the Field CTO and the Head of Physical AI. Inside each account, you own end-to-end technical execution: discovery, scoping, model and evaluation pipeline design, build, and production rollout. Across accounts, you identify the patterns worth productizing and then 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, and your job is to prove the platform's core claim: that customers can move from real-world failures to measurable model improvement faster than their internal tools allow, repeatably and at scale.

We are looking for engineers with the seniority and judgment of a founding engineer or staff individual contributor, people who can show up at a robotics company or a world model lab on a Monday and have credibility with the CTO by Friday. You will be trusted to make consequential technical decisions in ambiguous environments without waiting for permission.

In return, you get founder-level autonomy in an IC seat, direct exposure to the most important companies defining Physical AI, and the resources of a public cloud platform behind every line of code you ship. This is a definitive zero-to-one opportunity to write the code that defines the highest-growth segment of AI.

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, system design, build, and production rollout for each design partner and ISV engagement. Partner directly with customer engineering and domain teams to translate