Senior Technical Program Manager – Robotics
NVIDIA
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Clara • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $184,000 - $356,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Manage multi-track robotics programs with high-priority partners—defining outcomes, coordinating dependencies, and driving progress across developer relations, engineering, product, and research teams.
- Translate data workflows into structured plans of record (POR) with clear owners and milestones that accelerate the robotics ecosystem’s adoption of NVIDIA’s technology.
- Facilitate collaboration across different teams by leading weekly ecosystem meetings.
- Identify risks early, including product gaps, data issues, compute constraints, and resourcing needs.
- Coordinate mitigation plans with engineering and other relevant partners.
- Ensure ongoing, two-way communication that benefits developer relations, product, and research.
- Maintain documentation repositories for repeatable, scalable, and consistent communication as well as transparent reporting that demonstrates partner engagement with NVIDIA technology and progress toward team targets.
- Provide quality updates to collaborators and executive audiences.
- Ensure reports accurately reflect partner and ecosystem needs by sharing structured feedback with product, engineering, and research teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, robotics, computer science, or related field or equivalent experience; master’s degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of program management or engineering experience in robotics, AI/ML, data platforms, or embedded systems.
- Operational leadership that drives process for productivity and team success.
- Familiarity with robotics simulation platforms (Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Gazebo, etc.).
- Experience in robot learning, foundational models, synthetic data workflows, or perception systems.
- Proven ability to manage multi-partner, multi-threaded technical programs.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills across engineering, research, startups, and executive leadership.
- Ability to turn complex technical engagements into clear, trackable, repeatable execution frameworks.
Benefits
- equity
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Hard skills
program managementengineeringroboticsAI/MLdata platformsembedded systemsrobot learningsynthetic data workflowsperception systemsprocess productivity
Soft skills
operational leadershipcross-functional communicationcollaborationrisk identificationstructured feedbackdocumentation managementteam successclear communicationmilestone trackingpartner engagement