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NVIDIA

Developer Relations Manager – Federal Government

NVIDIA

Developer Relations Manager at NVIDIA leading technical engagement across U.S. defense autonomy ecosystem.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeCalifornia, District of Columbia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $272,000 - $431,250 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and maintain deep technical expertise in autonomous drone mission workloads
  • Embed with federal autonomy ISVs, drone OEMs, and prime contractors to architect, prototype, and integrate the NVIDIA software stack into flight-ready autonomy pipelines
  • Lead partner engineering teams through onboarding and integration
  • Deliver reference architectures, optimized perception and planning pipelines, sample code, and production-grade autonomy workflows
  • Observe the autonomy ecosystem to spot new opportunities in collaborative combat aircraft, loitering munitions, counter-UAS, ISR, and human-machine teaming
  • Provide insights to NVIDIA engineering and product teams to guide roadmaps for Jetson Thor, Isaac, and Holoscan
  • Engage senior technical leaders—including Chief Architects, CTOs, and autonomy platform leads—across the Aerospace & Defense sector
  • Run technical workshops, hackathons, and hands-on enablement programs that rapidly onboard autonomy engineers to the NVIDIA stack

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's or Master's (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace/Controls, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • 15+ years in the technology industry overall, with 7+ years hands-on in robotics, autonomy, flight software, perception, or edge AI
  • Proven technical depth in GPU-accelerated autonomy software: CUDA, TensorRT, Isaac ROS / ROS 2, Holoscan, DeepStream, and on-device model optimization for Jetson-class hardware
  • Proven experience in architecting real-time perception, sensor fusion, and planning stacks for SWaP-constrained airborne platforms
  • History of leading developer programs, reference integrations, or ecosystem partnerships with defense ISVs, primes, or venture-backed autonomy companies
  • Strong ability to translate between engineering depth and senior-executive strategy across program offices, primes, and mission owners

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package
  • Equity options

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Hard Skills & Tools
GPU-accelerated autonomy softwareCUDATensorRTIsaac ROSROS 2HoloscanDeepStreamon-device model optimizationreal-time perceptionsensor fusion
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationtechnical depthstrategic translation