Senior Applied Scientist — Efficient LLM Inference & Optimization
Nebius
Palo Alto, CA · Posted October 22, 2026
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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....