Developer Relations Manager Robotics

NVIDIA•Us, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Robotics Developer Relations Manager to partner with startups working in AI and robotics. The role builds technical relationships with NVIDIA’s Inception startup community and helps partners accelerate robotics application development using NVIDIA Physical AI software and robotics platforms, including Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab. Working with the Inception Partner Business Manager, the manager evaluates startup technologies for commercialization and supports their adoption of NVIDIA technology. The position combines hands-on technical advising and solution development with partner enablement and internal advocacy. It includes co-designing robotics solutions, creating technical resources, supporting synthetic data strategies, and contributing technical validation and customer-facing materials for product launches and go-to-market activities.

Requirements

At least 5 years in the technology industry, including at least 5 years of hands-on software development or engineering.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Experience across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through testing, integration, and support.
Technical background in at least one of robot foundation models, simulation, synthetic data, robot perception, reinforcement learning, or imitation learning.
Expertise with robotics simulation tools such as Gazebo, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, or Robot Studio.
Fluency with NVIDIA Jetson compute platforms and the JetPack SDK.
Experience leading technical workshops, code reviews, and architectural design sessions.
Strong communication skills with technical and executive audiences.
Ability to structure and deliver complex technical engagements.

Nice To Haves

Experience with NVIDIA tools and libraries such as CUDA-X, Isaac Sim, OpenUSD, or Cosmos.
Recent hands-on experience with robot simulation tools.
Knowledge of AIOps, cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring tools.
Experience training computer vision and/or kinematic foundation models.
Proven success growing developer ecosystems through technical enablement.

Responsibilities

Advise partner engineering teams on architecture, integration, and code for Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and AI-enabled robotics solutions.
Build and maintain expertise in NVIDIA robotics SDKs, particularly simulation and robot learning.
Track emerging robotics ecosystem trends and identify opportunities.
Co-design advanced robotic solutions with partners, defining objectives, architecture, milestones, and implementation plans.
Create technical enablement resources, including sample code, reference architectures, integration guides, and workshops.
Work with partner engineering leaders and decision-makers to identify challenges, recommend solutions, and drive adoption of NVIDIA robotics technology.
Represent partner needs internally and provide feedback to NVIDIA product and engineering teams to influence roadmaps.
Support robotics startups with synthetic data generation strategies.
Support product launches and go-to-market activities through technical validation, demonstrations, and customer-facing materials.