--- title: 'Development Manager – Data Centers at Nebius' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/development-manager-data-centers-nebius-united-states-38k0qgt0na8f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Development Manager – Data Centers at Nebius - **Company:** Nebius - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $180k–$220k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://careers.nebius.com/?gh_jid=4924056101 ## Job description 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 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, the Americas and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D. The Infrastructure Acquisition Group The Infrastructure Acquisition Group secures the land, power, and data center capacity that enables the Nebius AI Cloud. We identify where Nebius should grow next, structure the commercial agreements that make that growth possible, and partner across engineering, energy, finance, legal, and development to bring new AI infrastructure online. We're a small, founding team building this function from the ground up across the Americas, leading the acquisition of colocation, build-to-suit, powered land, and other strategic infrastructure opportunities as one of the world's fastest-growing AI cloud platforms scales. Examples of Problems We're Solving Transform acquisitions into data center-ready projects. A signed agreement is only the beginning. You'll lead development planning, utility coordination, permitting, consultant management, and infrastructure planning to prepare projects for successful delivery. Keep development ahead of construction. Coordinate engineering, utilities, municipalities, and development partners so projects remain ready for execution while commercial negotiations conclude and infrastructure requirements evolve. Build a repeatable development program. Help establish the standards, development governance, readiness gates, and project controls that will support AI infrastructure development across the Americas. ## About the Role As a Development Manager, you'll lead the development of AI infrastructure projects across the Americas from executed agreement through construction readiness. Working within the Infrastructure Acquisition Group, you'll partner with Site Selection, Technical Due Diligence, Engineering, Energy, Finance, Legal, and Delivery to transform acquisitions into fully defined, development-ready projects. This is a build-phase role on a build-phase team. Many of the development standards, governance processes, readiness gates, and project controls you'll use are still being written—in some cases, you'll help write them. We're looking for someone who can independently lead complex infrastructure developments while helping build the systems that make every future project faster, more predictable, and more scalable. ## What You'll Own - Lead the development of AI infrastructure projects from executed agreement through construction readiness. - Own integrated development roadmaps, schedules, budgets, milestones, and the pre-construction risk register. - Coordinate permitting, entitlement, utility planning, infrastructure planning, and owner obligations. - Recommend Go / No-Go decisions as projects advance through key development milestones. - Deliver development-ready projects to the Delivery organization with complete documentation and minimized risk. Development Planning & Governance - Lead development activities from executed agreement through construction readiness. - Develop and manage integrated development roadmaps, schedules, budgets, and key milestones. - Own the development budget, schedule, assumptions, and risk register throughout the pre-construction lifecycle. - Lead weekly development reviews and executive readiness meetings, and recommend Go / No-Go decisions as projects advance through key milestones. Infrastructure & Utility Coordination - Coordinate infrastructure planning for electrical service, substations, fiber, water, sewer, stormwater, and transportation access. - Coordinate permitting, utility planning, entitlement activities, infrastructure planning, and owner obligations. - Partner with utility providers, municipalities, engineering teams, and consultants to validate executable development plans. - Ensure infrastructure assumptions are fully integrated into project budgets and schedules. Construction Readiness - Establish development readiness criteria and project handoff standards. - Verify permits, utility agreements, infrastructure planning, owner deliverables, and development obligations are complete before turnover. - Deliver projects to the Delivery organization with complete documentation, defined scope, and minimized development risk. - Identify and resolve development risks before they impact construction. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Serve as the primary development interface across Site Selection, Technical Due Diligence, Engineering, Energy, Finance, Legal, and Delivery. - Coordinate architects, civil engineers, environmental consultants, surveyors, permitting specialists, and other external partners. - Align internal stakeholders and external consultants to prevent scope, schedule, and cost drift throughout development. What Success Looks Like - Transform acquisitions into data center-ready development projects. - Deliver predictable development schedules, budgets, and readiness milestones. - Identify and resolve development risks before they impact construction. - Build trusted relationships with utilities, municipalities, consultants, and development partners. - Help build the standards and processes the Infrastructure Acquisition Group runs on as it scales. ## What You'll Bring - You're comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes where none exist. You know how to independently lead complex infrastructure developments while helping define how future projects should be executed. - 8+ years of experience in data center development, industrial development, infrastructure development, land development, or mission-critical projects. - Experience managing permitting, entitlement, utility coordination, consultant management, and development planning activities. - Strong understanding of infrastructure development, owner's budgeting, development scheduling, risk management, and pre-construction planning. - Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams across engineering, utilities, design, legal, and construction. - Excellent communication and executive presentation skills. - Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience. ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting hyperscale data center or AI infrastructure development. - Experience with utility coordination, entitlement strategy, infrastructure planning, and owner's representation. - Experience with self-development or joint venture delivery models. - Professional Engineer (PE), PMP, or similar professional certification. ## Why Join Nebius The infrastructure supporting AI is being built now. This is an opportunity to help define how Nebius transforms acquisitions into development-ready AI infrastructure while helping build the function itself—the governance, development standards, readiness framework, and operating model that will support infrastructure investments across the Americas. You'll work on some of the industry's largest and most complex AI infrastructure developments while helping shape the physical foundation of the global AI economy. Pay Transparency We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, the level at which the candidate is hired, and geographic location, consistent with applicable law. Base Compensation Range $180,000—$220,000 USD 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. ## About Nebius ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nebius builds a full-stack AI cloud platform providing GPU-accelerated infrastructure and services for training, fine-tuning, and deploying AI models at scale. - **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: NBIS on Nasdaq) - **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Founded**: 2024 (as Nebius Group N.V., the successor to the former Yandex N.V.) - **Founders**: Arkady Volozh (founder of Yandex) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI Cloud Infrastructure & Services (Technology, Information and Internet) - **Target customers**: AI innovators of all sizes — from startups to research institutes to enterprises — across sectors including healthcare, life sciences, robotics, finance, and entertainment, as well as national AI programs. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To become one of the world's largest AI infrastructure companies, building the infrastructure for the age of AI. ## Products & Services - **Nebius AI Cloud**: A full-stack cloud platform offering raw GPU compute, serverless and managed inference, and MLOps tooling. Built on custom hardware with non-virtualized GPUs and InfiniBand networking, designed for high performance and reliability. - **Nebius Token Factory**: A service for running and managing large-scale inference workloads, including serving open-source and custom models. - **Nebius Echo**: An AI agent built directly into the Nebius console for operational support. - **Nebius Agents Blueprint**: An open architecture for building production-ready AI agents. - **Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner**: A designation for partners operating large clusters built in coordination with NVIDIA, adhering to a tested and optimized reference architecture. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed in the search results; as a public company (NBIS), market cap fluctuates daily. - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: **$10.29 billion** (including a $4.3B post-IPO equity round in March 2026, a $2.8B convertible note in September 2025, and a $1.4B post-IPO equity round in May 2011). Notably, a **$27 billion** long-term AI infrastructure supply agreement with Meta was announced in 2026. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Meta (long-term infrastructure agreement), NVIDIA (Reference Platform Cloud Partner), Bloom Energy (power infrastructure partnership). - **Growth Signals**: - **Headcount**: 900 employees (+114.9% YoY growth; +8.2% monthly growth). - **Active Job Postings**: 145 open roles (Yearly growth: +866.7%). - **Key Metrics**: Claims to offer better TCO for fine-tuning and inference vs. AWS; reports a 70% reduction in AI setup pipeline time for a partner (RoboForce); operates with a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 56.6 hours for a 3,000-GPU cluster. - **New Initiatives**: Launching the "Nebius Early Talent Program" for early-career engineers; announced an AI factory launch team in Lappeenranta, Finland; acquired Tavily and licensed Clarifai's inference IP. ## Competitive Advantages - **Custom Hardware**: Non-virtualized GPUs with InfiniBand networking, providing raw, dedicated performance without the overhead of virtualization. - **Full-Stack, Hyperscaler-Like Platform**: Combines the scale and reliability of a hyperscaler with the performance of a supercomputer, including built-in MLOps tooling. - **NVIDIA Reference Platform Partner**: A trusted partner with a validated, optimized architecture for large-scale AI workloads. - **Elasticity**: Offers flexible consumption options from small experiments to global-scale deployments. - **Deep Engineering Talent**: Built around a core of 500+ AI experts and hundreds of engineers with deep expertise in building world-class tech infrastructure (many from Yandex). ## Strategic Focus - **Massive Infrastructure Build-Out**: Executing on a multi-billion dollar agreement with Meta and expanding data center capacity in Europe and the US. - **Power & Energy Partnerships**: Partnering with Bloom Energy to secure reliable, on-site power for AI infrastructure. - **Product Innovation**: Continuously releasing new products (Echo, Agents Blueprint, Token Factory) to capture more of the AI developer workflow. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, and operations to support hypergrowth, with a dedicated Early Talent Program. - **Ecosystem Expansion**: Targeting specific verticals like healthcare, life sciences, and robotics with dedicated solutions and partnerships. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Work**: Employees solve some of the hardest technical problems in AI, building infrastructure that powers the next generation of technology. - **Culture**: Described as fast-moving, with a culture of trust and autonomy. New ideas are encouraged, experimentation is welcomed, and ownership is part of everyday work. - **Work Model**: Remote-friendly work culture built on trust and autonomy, with flexibility designed around time zones and personal commitments. - **Compensation**: Top-tier pay and benefits. - **Development**: Clear development paths to take careers forward, with mentorship from industry experts. - **Team**: A diverse, multicultural team with hubs across Europe, North America, and the Middle East. - **Notable Perks**: Thoughtful team gatherings, 24/7 support by default, and access to free white-glove proof-of-concepts. ## Sources 1. [Nebius Official Website](https://nebius.com) 2. [Nebius Careers Page](https://nebius.com/careers) 3. [Nebius LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nebius) 4. 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