Developer Relations Manager, Federal Government

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking an accomplished and visionary Developer Relations Manager to lead strategic engagement across the U.S. Federal software ecosystem, working with ISVs building critically important platforms for defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, geospatial analysis, healthcare, and scientific research. In this highly influential role, you will partner directly with federal-focused Independent Software Vendors, defense contractors, and AI software providers to accelerate adoption of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI platforms. The ideal candidate combines deep architectural expertise with a proven track record influencing partner product roadmaps. They guide platform integrations and encourage developers to build next-generation AI systems on NVIDIA technologies. These systems drive innovation in computing in the public sector.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master's or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
A minimum of 15+ years of overall professional experience in the technology industry with 7+ years of direct hands-on experience in AI/ML platforms, high-performance computing, or enterprise-scale software development within the federal government, defense, or public sector ecosystem.
Proven experience leading developer programs in partnership with federal ISVs, defense contractors, AI startups, and public sector technology platforms, driving adoption across critical software ecosystems.
Demonstrates outstanding technical depth in AI and high-performance computing software, including GPU-accelerated frameworks like CUDA-X and NVIDIA’s NeMo platform. Contributions include core product integrations and ecosystem-defining AI platforms.
Extensive experience collaborating with development and product groups through architecture build reviews, technical mentorship, solution prototyping, and delivering technical talks, workshops, and developer enablement programs.
Proven ability to lead complex multi‑stakeholder engagements across engineering, product, sales, legal, and government teams while clearly translating complex technical concepts for audiences from engineers to senior executives—driving adoption of NVIDIA technologies across large‑scale platforms.

Nice To Haves

Extensive hands-on experience architecting and optimizing federal mission workloads such as geospatial intelligence pipelines, cybersecurity analytics platforms, real-time sensor processing, digital twins, and simulation environments.
Expertise with advanced AI and GPU-accelerated frameworks including CUDA-X, RAPIDS, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, NVIDIA NeMo, and NIM microservices, and integrating them into production-grade government software platforms.
Proven experience building large‑scale, real‑time data processing, mission analytics, and decision systems across distributed compute environments.
Demonstrated history of launching and growing developer ecosystems across federal agencies, defense contractors, and government technology partners, accelerating adoption of accelerated computing platforms.

Responsibilities

Develop deep technical expertise across federal mission workloads (intelligence analysis, geospatial AI, cybersecurity analytics, simulation/digital twins, autonomous systems, scientific computing) while serving as a trusted advisor to the federal developer ecosystem.
Accelerate critically important workloads by architecting, demonstrating, and integrating the NVIDIA software stack—including CUDA‑X and NeMo—into partner platforms for high‑performance and scalable AI deployment.
Lead federal ISVs through onboarding and integration by delivering advanced resources such as reference architectures, optimized pipelines, sample code, and production‑ready AI workflows.
Analyze the federal developer ecosystem to identify emerging opportunities across defense AI, cybersecurity platforms, geospatial intelligence, mission analytics, and digital engineering, collaborating with NVIDIA engineering and product teams to shape product roadmaps and partner enablement strategies.
Engage senior technical leaders (Chief Architects, CTOs, AI platform teams) at federal ISVs and defense contractors to drive best‑practice integrations and solve complex architectural challenges. While delivering insights that inform NVIDIA’s product and platform strategy.
Partner with NVIDIA Account Managers, Industry Business Development leaders, Solutions Architects, and Federal system integrators to support strategic software platforms across federal agencies.
Enable the federal software ecosystem through technical workshops, developer events, and hands‑on programs that accelerate adoption of the NVIDIA AI platform.
Support the development of AI blueprints and reference architectures for federal deployments, enabling ISVs to build secure, scalable AI applications optimized for NVIDIA accelerated computing.