The role

We are seeking a customer-obsessed Solutions Architect to lead technical engagement with Nebius customers across Europe. This role is focused on presales excellence, strong technical storytelling, and driving adoption of Nebius AI Cloud across a wide range of industry segments.

As a Solutions Architect, you will act as a trusted technical partner to customers, helping them understand, evaluate, and adopt Nebius for their AI/ML and high-performance computing workloads. You will combine deep technical expertise with strong communication skills to clearly articulate Nebius’ value proposition and differentiate our platform in a competitive market.

You’re welcome to work remotely from Europe.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Own end-to-end technical presales engagements, from discovery through solution design, PoC execution, and production readiness
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer stakeholders, including CTOs, Heads of AI/ML, and platform engineering teams
• Deliver compelling technical presentations, demos, and workshops that clearly communicate the value of Nebius across different customer segments
• Execute demos and PoCs to demonstrate performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of Nebius solutions
• Translate customer requirements into scalable, production-ready architectures and best practices
• Collaborate closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering to align customer needs with Nebius capabilities and roadmap
• Act as a technical advocate for customers internally, ensuring feedback is incorporated into product and go-to-market strategy
• Support regional go-to-market efforts, including events, meetups, webinars, and technical content creation
• Contribute to building repeatable technical playbooks and assets for the European market

We expect you to have:

• 2–5+ years of experience in technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect, Sales Engineer, or similar, with strong customer-facing exposure
• Proven experience in presales or customer-facing technical roles, including discovery, solution design, and PoC execution
• Strong ability to deliver technical pitches and clearly explain complex infrastructure and AI/ML concepts to both technical and business audiences
• Experience positioning cloud or infrastructure solutions and articulating value propositions in competitive environments
• Solid understanding of ML/AI workloads, including training and inference, and the underlying infrastructure requirements
• Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and scripting/programming (Python preferred)
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt messaging across different customer segments
• Deep understanding of the European market, including customer expectations, buying behaviors, and local ecosystem
• Fluency in English plus another language preferred (both written and spoken), with the ability to engage confidently with local customers and stakeholders
• A highly customer-centric mindset, with the ability to balance technical depth and business value

It will be an added bonus if you have:

• Experience with GPU-accelerated workloads and AI infrastructure (NVIDIA ecosystem, CUDA, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with MLOps tools and frameworks (Kubeflow, MLflow, etc.)
• Familiarity with HPC environments and schedulers (e.g., Slurm)
• Experience contributing to regional go-to-market or developer/community initiatives

The Team:

AlphaSense’s Design team is a strategic driver of product differentiation, shaping how the world’s leading companies make high-stakes decisions with confidence. We believe great UX is not just about usability, it’s about deeply understanding our customers’ workflows and building experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and indispensable to how they work.
As AlphaSense evolves into an AI-native platform, Design plays a critical role in defining how AI shows up in real workflows, from search to synthesis to decision-making. We partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn complex data and advanced AI capabilities into cohesive, intuitive, and high-quality experiences.
Our team is a global group of craftspeople, systems thinkers, and innovators who care deeply about quality, velocity, and impact. We operate with a strong sense of ownership, a bias toward action, and a commitment to raising the bar for what great product design looks like in an AI-first world.

About the Role:
We are seeking a Principal Design Engineer to play a key role in shaping the future of AlphaSense’s product experience. This is a senior individual contributor role, where you’ll lead through craft, systems thinking, and technical excellence, building AI-powered experiences that feel tailored, intelligent, and essential to our customers’ workflows.
You will operate at the intersection of design, engineering, and product strategy, translating complex, data-rich problems into high-quality, production-ready experiences. You won’t just prototype ideas; you’ll define how they are built, scaled, and experienced in the product.
As a senior member of the Design team, you’ll act as a multiplier—mentoring others, guiding technical and design decisions, and strengthening the connection between user needs, business goals, and engineering realities.

Why this role matters
At AlphaSense, design is a core driver of how we win. As we build an AI-native platform, the quality of our user experience will define how effectively customers can navigate complexity, build conviction, and make decisions.
In this role, you will help define that standard—through the systems you build, the experiences you ship, and the team you help elevate.

What You’ll Do

• Create high-fidelity, coded prototypes and interaction models that bring complex, AI-powered workflows to life and clearly communicate product direction.
• Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production, shipping experiences that reflect strong design thinking, technical rigor, and a deep understanding of customer workflows.
• Lead technical design discussions, make architectural decisions, and guide cross-team implementation efforts.
• Advance AlphaSense’s design system as a core piece of product infrastructure—defining scalable patterns, enabling consistency, and accelerating teams building across AI-native experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to research and evaluate user requirements, translate them into effective designs, and ensure that the final product meets both user and business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams during development, advocating for design quality and user experience by championing design fidelity and attention to detail throughout the development lifecycle.

• Act as a senior leader within the Design team, mentoring designers and engineers, raising the bar for craft, and contributing to a strong, collaborative design culture.
• Serve as connective tissue across design, product, and engineering—helping teams navigate tradeoffs between technical constraints, business goals, and user experience to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Who You Are

• 12+ years of experience in product design, design/UX/front-end engineering, design systems, or a related discipline.
• A bachelor’s degree or higher. A degree in design, computer science, information sciences, psychology, or human-computer interaction is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and evolving design systems.
• Experience building AI and agentic experiences, and you are already leveraging AI to speed up and augment your end-to-end design and development process.
• Expertise with modern AI technologies and ability to apply them to design problems (e.g., MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Skills).
• Experience shipping production-ready experiences and influencing technical and design choices across teams.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, end-to-end customer workflows, and the ability to turn new users into habitual users.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in project leadership, mentorship, and providing constructive feedback to foster professional growth.

What we offer

• Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Relocation support for single employees, couple and families
• While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
• Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help define and build shared, API-first product platforms at AlphaSense that power multiple product surfaces, integrations, and agentic workflows.

In this role, you’ll focus on building platforms as products: well-designed APIs, clear contracts, strong reliability guarantees, and a roadmap driven by real product needs. These platforms are consumed by internal product teams, external integrations, including AI agents.

This role sits at the intersection of hands-on engineering and cross-product technical leadership. You’ll stay close to the code while shaping how product platforms are designed, evolved, and adopted across the company. You’ll also work across multiple teams and domains, helping to align long-term technical direction while still owning end-to-end systems. This is not a people-management role, nor is it a purely advisory architecture role. We’re explicitly looking for a Principal who enjoys building, prototyping, iterating, and solving complex problems in production.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as a technical owner and force multiplier for API-first architecture across the company
• Design, build, and evolve high-scale APIs used by internal teams, external customers, and intelligent agents
• Lead the development of agentic workflows, including orchestration, state management, tooling, and integration patterns
• Drive API standards, design principles, and best practices through hands-on work and technical reviews
• Tackle complex cross-team problems where requirements are ambiguous, and constraints are real
• Partner with Product, Platform, and SRE teams to ensure APIs are reliable, observable, secure, and scalable
• Identify and reduce systemic technical risks while enabling teams to move faster
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through example, not hierarchy

Who you are:

• Extensive experience as a senior staff/principal-level software engineer working on applications and backend systems
• Experience building product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple product teams
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating APIs at scale
• Strong hands-on experience with RESTful APIs
• Some experience with GraphQL (design, usage, or operating in production)
• Deep understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and evolution over time
• Strong bias toward hands-on contribution and ownership of real systems
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams through credibility and execution

Nice to have: 

• Experience building or enabling agentic or AI-driven workflows
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar agent integration patterns
• Experience working in large-scale, distributed systems environments
• Exposure to API governance, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility at scale
• Experience working closely with the platform and SRE teams

What we offer:

• Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
• While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
• Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....

You can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form.

At Aiven, our vision is to help developers and builders bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity by providing a data platform that makes open-source infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. We are now embarking on one of our most ambitious strategic bets to ensure open source thrives on European infrastructure. 

The Role

We are looking for a Technical Lead, Cloud to own the technical execution of our new cloud product. This is a small, high-autonomy team with minimal hierarchy. You are the person who translates vision into architecture, infrastructure and shipped product. You will work directly alongside Aiven's VP Strategy, who owns the strategic direction and business outcomes. Together, you form the leadership pair that makes this thing real.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Decision-Making

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture for a new cloud product built from the ground up
• Make the critical build, buy and partner decisions across every layer of the stack, aligning trade-offs with VP Strategy for bets that carry strategic or financial weight
• Design for the future from day one: the architecture must support a bold long-term vision that you are expected to shape and contribute to

Execution & Delivery

• Build a high-performance, no-ego team of exceptional engineers and product builders
• Lead the engineering team (backend, frontend, design, architecture) with a relentless bias for shipping while contributing code yourself
• Own the roadmap and delivery milestones
• Operate with disciplined scoping and ruthless prioritisation: launch with what matters, proxy what can wait, and never let perfection block progress
• Work with existing Aiven teams to ensure no misalignment emerges over shared architecture

Infrastructure & Operations

• Build abstraction layers that deliver a first-class cloud experience to developers and agents, regardless of the underlying infrastructure
• Ensure the platform meets rigorous security, compliance and certification requirements from day one
• Plan for infrastructure evolution as the product scales

Cross-functional Partnership

• Partner with go-to-market, policy and design leads to ensure the product narrative is technically credible and market-ready
• Engage directly with early design-partner customers to validate requirements and iterate on the MVP

What We're Looking For:

You are a principal-level engineer with the ability to operate in an early product environment like a founder. You have built and shipped complex infrastructure products like cloud platforms, managed database services or developer tooling. You know what it takes to go from a blank canvas to paying customers in a short timeline.

You have deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and open-source technologies. You have excellent taste and conviction on how modern cloud infrastructure should be built, and the technical seniority to turn that into simple narratives. Experience with bare metal orchestration, storage systems or European infrastructure providers is a strong plus.

You thrive in ambiguity and move fast without waiting for permission. You are a high-energy individual with proven evidence of high-agency problem solving.

Amazing! What’s next:

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

How to Recognize and Avoid Employment Scams:

There has been a rise in fake job postings used by scammers to get personal information. At Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from an @aiven.io, @greenhouse.io or @eu.greenhouse.io domain and all of our interviews are conducted by video call or in person.  Our interviews will never occur via text or chat. If you’re unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

Equal Opportunities:

Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

At Aiven we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We make all reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities or who otherwise need support to thrive in the workplace. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at recruitment@aiven.io.

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