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Senior Applied Scientist — Efficient LLM Inference & Optimization

Nebius

Nebius is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to turn frontier inference bottlenecks into production-ready solutions. You will design rigorous experiments, write high-quality code in Python and PyTorch, and collaborate with ML engineers to ship research into production. You will own well-scoped research projects, publish credible work, mentor engineers, and define evaluation methods for latency, throughput, and cost per token across LLM/VLM inference workloads. #J-18808-Ljbffr Nebius

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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