Field CTO - Media & Entertainment

Details

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. We create tools and resources customers need to solve real-world challenges and transform industries without massive infrastructure costs or large in-house AI/ML teams. Nebius is headquartered in Amsterdam with R&D hubs across Europe, North America, and Israel and a team of 800+ employees including 400+ engineers.

This Field CTO is the Head of Engineering for the Media & Entertainment vertical. You will partner with CTOs and CIOs at Agency Holding Companies, Gaming Studios, and leading generative AI model companies to shape technical roadmaps and help customers become AI-native platforms. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to build M&E primitives and be the strategic technical owner of the vertical — bridging AI infrastructure and inference physics with customer business goals.

Responsibilities

• Own the category-defining architecture for lighthouse deals (e.g., global data consolidation, large-scale infrastructure migrations) and ensure solutions operate at real-world scale, not just POCs.
• Translate infrastructure decisions (data lake locality, storage tiering, etc.) into business and operational impact for executive stakeholders.
• Forensically gather requirements: deconstruct bottlenecks, convert vague business goals into precise engineering requirements (e.g., optimizing inference batch size on L40s to reduce cost-per-token).
• Map customer maturity from service bureau to tech platform and prescribe specific infrastructure interventions.
• Build and validate integration relationships with critical ISVs in the media landscape and define reference architectures for how those tools run best on Nebius infrastructure.
• Chair the M&E Product Summit and use field evidence to prioritize and justify the M&E vertical roadmap.
• Direct an engineering team to produce high-leverage assets such as scalable quick-start reference architectures (example: deploying large models like Llama-405B for use cases such as ad copy creation).

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
• Executive presence with the ability to present layered technical roadmaps to C-suite stakeholders.
• Product-minded: experience defining platform strategy and making principled technical trade-offs (able to decline requests that create technical debt and propose better alternatives).
• High tolerance for ambiguity; ability to proactively build roadmaps and operate in evolving environments.
• Entrepreneurial grit and a forensic mindset: dig into logs, kernels, and P&L to find root causes and truth.

AI Infrastructure & Technical Expertise

• Production-grade expertise across the AI infrastructure stack, including GPU architecture knowledge (H100, L40s) and the physics of model inference and cost-performance trade-offs.
• Kubernetes orchestration (K8s) experience for large-scale workloads.
• High-performance storage and parallel file systems (examples: Lustre, WEKA) and storage tiering strategies.
• Networking constraints and experience with InfiniBand and high-performance Ethernet.
• Inference optimization skills: batching, quantization, KV caching, and latency trade-offs (architecting for both massive throughput and real-time sub-50ms demands).
• Experience with model serving, large language models and multimodal generative models, and practical knowledge of deploying and serving very large models.

Domain Context: Media & Entertainment

• Industry fluency across at least two sub-sectors such as Gaming, Multimodal Generative Models, AdTech, or VFX.
• Ability to prescribe the right operational model (bare-metal vs managed endpoints) for different customers.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) with up to 4% company match and immediate vesting.
• Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Remote work reimbursement up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Company-paid short-term, long-term disability and life insurance.
• Competitive salary, equity, and opportunities for professional growth.

Compensation

• Competitive salaries ranging from $295k - $365k OTE (On Target Earnings) + Equity, dependent on experience.

Location & Work Policy

• You may work remotely from the United States (SF Bay Area or New York City preferred). Office presence / travel expectations: ~10%–20% for executive meetings and key industry events.
• Flexible working arrangements and remote-friendly policies.