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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Inference Optimization

Nebius · Zurich

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In brief

Nebius is hiring: Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Inference Optimization in Zurich.

Duties

  • Own a platform-level optimization pillar such as quantization, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization, engine selection, or long-context serving.
  • Create reusable evaluation, benchmarking, and rollout frameworks across multiple model families.
  • Provide technical direction to MLEs, Applied Scientists, GPU kernel engineers, and infrastructure engineers on shared performance goals.
  • Optimize LLM and VLM endpoints for latency, throughput, memory efficiency, GPU utilization, quality, and cost per token.

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About Nebius: 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…

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