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System Engineer (Token Factory)
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- Software Engineering
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- Full Time
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- Open level
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- 3 Dec 2026
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About this role.
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 to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.
Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.
Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
About the role:
Token Factory is a part of Nebius Cloud, one of the world’s largest GPU clouds, running tens of thousands of GPUs. We are building an inference platform that makes every kind of foundation model — text, vision, audio, and emerging multimodal architectures — fast, reliable, and effortless to deploy at massive scale.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and optimize low-level kernels and runtime components for AI inference
- Improve performance of inference engines GPU platforms
- Profile and debug system-level and hardware-level performance issues
- Integrate support for new hardware architectures (Hopper, Blackwell, Rubin)
- Collaborate with ML and backend teams to optimize end-to-end execution
Required Qualifications:
- Strong proficiency in C++, OR expertise in GPU programming with a focus on low-level high-performance coding and memory management
- Experience in GPU programming or systems-level software development, e.g. operating system internals, kernel modules, or device drivers
- Hands-on experience with profiling and debugging tools to identify performance issues on both CPUs and GPUs, and the ability to optimize code based on those findings.
- Solid understanding of CPU/GPU architecture and memory hierarchy
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with GPU computing programming: CUDA, ROCm, CUTLASS, Cute, ThunderKittens, Triton, Pallas, Mosaic GPU
- Familiarity with ML inference runtimes (e.g. TensorRT, TVM)
- Knowledge of Linux internals, drivers, or compiler toolchains
- Experience with tools like perf, VTune, Nsight, or ROCm profiler
- Familiarity with popular inference engines (e.g. such as vLLM, sglang, TGI)
We conduct coding interviews as part of the process.
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams
What’s it like to work at Nebius:
Fast moving – Bold thinking – Constant growth – Meaningful impact – Trust and real ownership – Opportunity to shape the future of AI
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.
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The role, at a glance.
Nebius is seeking a systems engineer for Token Factory, its large-scale GPU-cloud inference platform. The role develops and optimizes low-level kernels and runtime components for AI inference across modern GPU architectures. Key work includes profiling CPU/GPU performance, debugging hardware- and system-level bottlenecks, and integrating support for Hopper, Blackwell, and Rubin platforms. The engineer will collaborate with machine-learning and backend teams to improve end-to-end inference efficiency and reliability. Strong C++ or GPU programming expertise, systems software knowledge, and performance-analysis experience are central to success.
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I would first establish a baseline and collect traces with tools such as Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute. I would examine kernel execution, memory transfers, occupancy, warp stalls, memory bandwidth, and CPU-side scheduling, then prioritize the dominant bottleneck and validate each optimization with repeatable benchmarks.
Important factors include access coalescing, alignment, cache behavior, shared-memory bank conflicts, register pressure, occupancy, and unnecessary global-memory traffic. I would structure data layouts and thread access patterns to improve locality while balancing register use and parallelism.
I would review its compute, memory, and tensor-core capabilities, benchmark representative model workloads, and profile existing kernels to identify architecture-specific limits. Then I would tune launch configurations, memory movement, precision paths, and kernel implementations, validating correctness and performance across model sizes and batch profiles.
CPU scheduling, request batching, memory allocation, synchronization, launch overhead, data preparation, and host-to-device transfers can all starve the GPU or increase tail latency. I would profile the full pipeline rather than individual kernels and optimize the critical end-to-end path.
I would agree on workload definitions and service-level targets, collect production-like traces, and separate model, runtime, and serving bottlenecks. I would communicate evidence-based trade-offs such as batching, quantization, graph capture, or scheduling changes, then jointly validate improvements against throughput, latency, quality, and reliability requirements.
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