Senior Applied Scientist, Efficient LLM Inference & Model Optimization
Nebius is hiring for Senior Applied Scientist, Efficient LLM Inference & Model Optimization in Palo Alto, California, United States. Senior level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 9, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.
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- Company
- Nebius
- Where
- Palo Alto, California, United States
- Level
- Senior
- First seen
- August 6, 2026
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What the posting says
The role Nebius Token Factory is looking for scientists who can turn frontier LLM and VLM inference bottlenecks into research questions, conduct rigorous experiments, and translate their findings into production capabilities. You will own focused research and optimization projects, write strong code, and produce prototypes, publications, and technical artifacts that engineers can build on. Your research will span quantization, distillation, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization, and model/runtime co-optimization, alongside inference engines and distributed inference architectures. You…
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