AI-Native Developer Relations Lead

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Developer Relations Manager to engage with AI-native startups, architects, and engineering teams, guiding them to design and scale AI platforms on NVIDIA technologies. You will help optimize training and inference, improving performance and latency across NVIDIA systems.

The role requires deep ML infrastructure knowledge, hands-on experience with large-scale AI systems, and a proven ability to influence product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, developer relations, solutions architecture, technical partnerships, or product management within AI, developer platforms, or large-scale software systems.
• Hands-on experience building or scaling AI-powered products, developer platforms, or large-scale cloud services.
• Strong expertise in machine learning infrastructure, model serving, distributed systems, and real-time AI applications.
• Deep understanding of the modern AI stack including LLMs, agent frameworks, multimodal models, and inference optimization.
• Proven ability to work closely with engineering teams and startup founders to influence product architecture and technical roadmaps.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to explain complex AI systems to audiences ranging from engineers to startup founders and executives.
• Experience working within fast-moving startup environments or supporting high-growth developer ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to AI-native companies building category-defining applications such as developer copilots, AI search engines, agentic platforms, and multimodal tools.
• Work directly with startup founders and engineering teams to architect and optimize AI workloads using NVIDIA technologies including CUDA-X libraries, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, NVIDIA NeMo, NIM microservices, and GPU-accelerated data processing frameworks.
• Help AI-native companies scale training and inference infrastructure, optimizing model performance, cost efficiency, and latency across NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms.
• Guide startups through complex architectural decisions including model optimization, inference scaling, agent frameworks, multimodal pipelines, and real-time AI systems.
• Collaborate with NVIDIA engineering, research, product, and go-to-market teams to identify emerging AI-native categories and influence NVIDIA’s platform roadmap.
• Build relationships with founders, CTOs, and technical leaders across the AI-native ecosystem to ensure NVIDIA is the platform of choice.
• Support the creation of reference architectures, AI blueprints, and best practices for scalable AI applications and agentic systems.
• Partner with NVIDIA’s Industry Business Development teams, Solutions Architects, and Account Managers to accelerate adoption of NVIDIA technologies.

Skills

Software engineering

Developer relations

Solutions architecture

Product management

AI systems

Education

BS/MS degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

CUDA-X libraries

TensorRT-LLM

Triton Inference Server

NVIDIA NeMo

NIM microservices

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Developer Relations Manager to engage with AI-native startups, architects, and engineering teams, guiding them to design and scale AI platforms on NVIDIA technologies. You will help optimize training and inference, improving performance and latency across NVIDIA systems.

The role requires deep ML infrastructure knowledge, hands-on experience with large-scale AI systems, and a proven ability to influence product roadmaps.