Senior Developer Relations Manager

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world.

At NVIDIA, we’re solving the world’s most ambitious problems within our accelerated computing cloud platform division, DGX Cloud! We’re looking for hard-working, customer facing individuals, with AI expertise in the areas of agentic AI, model training, and inference workloads. We call this role developer relations. Evangelizing and engaging with ISV partners and customers to help them embrace the DGX Cloud platform and drive towards integrations that benefit our complementary neocloud ecosystem This is what this role is all about! You’ll do this by getting directly involved with the ecosystem, attending conferences, engaging in hackathons, and building a network of influencers. The DGX Cloud DevRel organization is a small, strong, and visible group both inside and outside of NVIDIA and for that we need a self-starting leader to continue to grow this area.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and develop ISV strategy with cross functional teams, including Product and Engineering. Identify areas of collaboration and complimentary technologies.

• Evangelize and engage with developers to encourage the use of the DGX Cloud Lepton platform. Create sales and marketing assets with developers.

• Participate in customer conversations and information gathering sessions. Provide direction to the product team and address any feature gaps.

• Develop and implement go-to-market efforts with strategic ISVs, including identifying lighthouse accounts and developing solution messaging.

• Build formal or informal programs to recruit developers.

• Develop success stories, advise on demos for trade shows and developer conferences, create assets for social media programs and other assets that raise awareness to press, mutual customers and business partners.

• Research technology and market trends, including identifying gaps and competitive threats.

• Help with hosting developer and customer evangelism events: meetups, hackathons, and speak at relevant industry events.

• Build effective technical partnerships between organizations. Able to work independently and know when to seek advice to improve productivity.

• Clearly communicate complex technical information to senior executives.

What we need to see:

• 12+ overall years of proven working experience in related fields such as Solutions Engineer, Developer Advocacy, Software Engineer.

• Passion for ecosystem development

• Experience in customer facing roles

• AI model training and/or fine tuning experience

• Experience using various MLOps and/or AI lifecycle tools

• Prior experience being a leader in cross functional teams

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills

• Ability to be proactive and work with minimal supervision

• Good project management and organizational skills with experience working in a global environment

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Direct experience and engagement working with key AI focused OSS developer tools e.g. Hugging Face, LangChain, Unsloth etc.

• Ability to showcase explicit examples of key integration efforts that drove developer adoption and growth 

• Active, novel use of AI in making your work and work of your team more productive 

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology industry's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working with us and our engineering teams are growing fast in some of the most impactful fields of our generation: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Vehicles. If you're a hardworking individual who enjoys autonomy and shares our passion for technology, we want to hear from you. We are looking for great people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.

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Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 8, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.