Senior AI Inference Scientist: LLM & VLM Optimization
nebius groupPalo Alto (CA)
Senior AI Inference Scientist: LLM & VLM Optimization
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nebius groupPalo Alto (CA)
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SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Nebius is seeking a highly skilled AI research scientist to advance frontier LLM and VLM inference and drive production-ready innovations at scale. You will own focused research, write strong code, and produce prototypes, publications, and artifacts for engineers to build upon. Responsibilities span quantization, distillation, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization, and model/runtime co-optimization, working with MLEs and platform engineers to deliver impactful results.
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