Field CTO, Financial Services AI Infrastructure

Role description

Role Overview

Nebius is building the AI infrastructure that financial institutions will run AI on in production. The Field CTO for Financial Services is a senior technical leadership role at the intersection of production GPU infrastructure and the regulated business of financial services.

What You Will Do

The role involves leading the technical side of the vertical, including architecture conversations with CTOs and heads of research infrastructure, technical content of regulated-buyer diligence, reference architectures for financial workloads, and product requirements.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires a strong technical background, experience in senior technical leadership, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both engineers and executives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, distributed systems, or a closely related technical domain
• 5+ years in AI, ML, or MLOps with exposure to production or large-scale systems
• Prior experience in a senior technical leadership role
• Dual Competency: ability to draw a distributed system on a whiteboard and explain its value and risk profile to a CIO or a Chief Risk Officer
• GTM Fluency: experience partnering with Sales to close large enterprise deals and enabling field teams with technical assets
• Product-Minded Leadership: ability to define requirements from field evidence and shape platform strategy
• Mastery of the Stack: expert-level, production-grade knowledge of GPU architectures, Kubernetes and Slurm orchestration, high-performance and parallel file systems, and networking constraints
• Inference Optimization: understanding of the nuances of model serving, including batch sizes, quantization, KV caching, and latency tradeoffs
• Financial Services Fluency: first-hand experience in at least one of capital markets and quant research infrastructure, bank or insurer AI platforms, AI-native fintech, or an FSI technical role at a cloud or GPU provider
• Builder Mentality: ability to arrive with a point of view on where financial institutions are heading with AI infrastructure and pursue it without waiting to be directed
• Public Technical Voice: conference talks, writing, or open-source work that shows credibility with engineering and executive audiences
• Communication: strong executive presence, capable of influencing product teams and leadership through clarity and credibility
• Comfort in Ambiguity: experience operating in fast-moving environments where requirements are evolving

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families
• Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting in 401(k) plan
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Up to $85/month for mobile and internet reimbursement
• Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage