Senior LLM/VLM Inference Scientist - Production-Ready
fdetimesPalo Alto (CA)
Senior LLM/VLM Inference Scientist - Production-Ready
Posted today
fdetimesPalo Alto (CA)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Nebius is seeking a world-class research scientist to advance frontier LLM and VLM inference. You will own focused research and optimization projects, write strong code, and produce prototypes, publications, and artifacts that engineers can build on.
Your work spans quantization, distillation, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization, and model/runtime co-optimization, evaluating trade-offs in quality, latency, throughput, memory, and cost per token.
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