Senior Developer Relations Manager

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Senior Developer Relations Manager to join our team, with a focus on engaging developer ecosystems across emerging technology domains. In this pivotal role, you will work directly with software solution providers, developers, and industry professionals to champion the adoption of NVIDIA’s advanced AI and computing platforms. The ideal candidate brings a blend of deep technical expertise combined with a passion for developer advocacy and a talent for communicating how NVIDIA technology can solve complex, real-world challenges.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and maintain deep technical expertise in Agentic AI, Generative AI and AI Models for multimodality data & models. Serve as the trusted technical advisor, problem solver, and champion for the developer ecosystem in Sovereign AI, with cross-functional partners to drive adoption of NVIDIA technologies.

• Accelerate critical workloads by demonstrating and integrating the NVIDIA software stack (tools, libraries, SDKs, NIMs, and blueprints) into partner products, platforms, and pipelines.

• Guide partners through onboarding and integration by providing technical resources—such as sample code, guides, and demo pipelines—to accelerate Sovereign AI-specific technology adoption and foster co-innovation of next-generation solutions.

• Map and monitor the developer ecosystem to identify growth opportunities, collaborating with engineering, product management, and marketing to inform roadmaps and optimize partner adoption strategies.

• Engage partner technical leaders to drive best-practice integrations and resolve technical challenges, using regular syncs to track adoption, surface new workflows, and channel critical field insights back to NVIDIA product teams.

• Deep understanding of Sovereign AI Technology and Use Cases enabling both governments and enterprises adopters.

• Discover new workflows, identify blockers to ISV adoption, and report back to the product teams.

• Collaborate with NVIDIA partner managers, solution architects, industry business development managers, local and regional Sovereign AI entities, sales and marketing.

• We make heavy use of conferencing tools, but some travel is required. You are empowered to find the best way to get your job done and make our partners successful.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• A minimum of 8+ years of overall professional experience in the technology industry in software engineering, developer relations, technical partnerships, solutions architect, product management, including 5+ years of direct hands-on experience in Agentic AI, Gen AI, LLMs and VLM in Enterprise-scale ISV software development, government workflow etc.

• Proven experience leading, partnering, scaling developer programs at major technology companies, and ISVs, or within relevant verticals.

• Significant technical depth in Agentic AI, Gen AI, LLMs and VLM software including for areas such as smart cities, healthcare, citizen services robotics, cloud and AI/ML and contributions to product integrations and software libraries.

• Experience leading technical collaborations with engineering and product teams - including architectural design, code reviews, technical mentorship, and delivery of technical talks or workshops

• Proven ability to structure and implement complex technical engagements, negotiate requirements, prioritize issues, and collaborate with internal or external collaborators (across sales, legal, product or marketing teams as needed).

• Skilled at distilling complex technical concepts for audiences from engineers to executives, with end-to-end experience in defining, integrating, building, and jointly marketing solutions with strategic ISV partners.

• Strong project management skills: ability to plan, prioritize, and drive forward multiple projects simultaneously, while engaging with internal and external stakeholders.

• Handson experience with software architecture design, implementation and programming skills

• Passionate about AI and its evolving growth with continuous learning spirit, self-started and driven on focused outcome-oriented activities and empathy for developers

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience creating or optimizing vertical-specific technical solutions using Agentic AI, Gen AI, LLMs and VLM for software workflows

• Hands-on familiarity with advanced computing, AI, and/or GPU acceleration platforms, NVIDIA AI platforms & frameworks such as NEMO Framework, TRT, TRITON, Nemotron Models, RAPIDS, CUDA etc along with vertical specific model/algorithm optimization skills

• Successful history of building and scaling developer communities and delivering impactful technical enablement programs.

• Skilled in developing systems and tools to measure developer sentiment and track market trends, turning ecosystem insights into practical recommendations that guide product direction and strategic planning in Sovereign AI space

• Expertise in building frameworks to capture developer sentiment and market shifts, translating real-time ecosystem dynamics into actionable intelligence for industry strategy and product rationalization in Agentic AI, Gen AI, LLMs and VLM for Sovereign AI and Government/Citizen services centric workflows.

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the world’s most desirable employers! We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to outstanding growth, our best-in-class engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous person with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you.