Early Talent Program
Are you a recent graduate looking to start your career at the right place? Join the Nebius Early Talent Program and build your future with us.
Who is Nebius?
Cloud platform for AI innovators
Nebius is building the Cloud platform for AI innovators.
Nebius builds vertically integrated AI infrastructure that helps innovators move faster globally and at scale.
We support AI builders from startups and researchers to enterprises and national programs, across fields like healthcare, robotics, finance, entertainment, and more.
Public company listed on Nasdaq
Nebius is listed on Nasdaq, giving us long-term backing and full transparency. We also partner with some of the biggest names in tech, including NVIDIA, Microsoft and Meta.
Strong team
Nebius is at an inflection point. The early days were defined by speed — bringing in senior talent to build and scale quickly. The next phase of sustainable growth requires something different: a deep, internal pipeline of people who grow with the company.
That’s exactly what the Early Talent Program is. Not a perk or a side initiative, but a core part of how Nebius builds its next generation of leaders. You’ll be learning and growing alongside some of the best in the industry, from day one.
About the Early Talent Program
Our roles
Software & ML
At Nebius, our Software and ML teams tackle world-class AI challenges, building cutting-edge solutions and infrastructure that power the next generation of AI innovation.
Infrastructure & Platform
At Nebius, our Infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the data centers that power the global AI economy.
Why choose Nebius’s Early Talent Program?
Competitive salary
You’ll be compensated at a level comparable to a junior full-time employee, because you won’t just be watching from the sidelines. You’ll be doing hands-on work from day one.
Real product ownership
No hypothetical assignments or throwaway tasks. As a part of the Early Talent Program, you’ll contribute directly to real products, infrastructure, and AI systems used by our customers and internal teams.
Dedicated mentorship
Every Early Talent is paired with a buddy from their team, an experienced professional who supports your growth, gives regular feedback, and helps you navigate both the technical and professional aspects of the role.
Experience Nebius from the inside
Get first-hand exposure to how Nebius operates: how teams collaborate, how decisions are made, and how large-scale AI and infrastructure products are built and scaled.
Real impact
Your work matters. Early Talent will help shape the tools, platforms, and infrastructure powering the future of AI and get to see the tangible results of their contributions.
Program timeline
Application Window
Recruitment Process
Start dates may vary slightly depending on location
Selection Stages
Our mentors
Vladimir Kikhtenko
Team lead of Nebius VPC, specializing in overlay networking control-plane and scalable systems. Before Nebius he lead development of Arc VCS and studied tsunami modeling.
Andrei Strelkovskii
Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years of C++ development experience across web search, ML and distributed storage systems, previously led network block storage and filesystem development at Yandex and Nebius and was a Principal Engineer on AWS Aurora.
Alexander Golubev
Nebius AI Research Team Lead. Focusing on LLMs, Reinforcement Learning and AI agents, with a track record of publications at leading AI venues.
Aleksandr Lukashkin
Senior Technical Program Manager with 15+ years in fintech, adtech, and telecom. Focused on architecture, leadership, and continuous technical growth.
Contact our team
If you have any questions about the internship, feel free to contact us at earlytalent@nebius.com!
FAQ
No. There are no formal age or degree requirements. Although we are primarily targeting graduates and final-year students, candidates outside this group may be considered based on skill level and assessment performance.