Open Source Community Growth Architect

NVIDIA Corporation

Santa Clara (CA)

Hybrid

USD 200,000 - 322,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced open source program leader to oversee governance and contributor engagement for DSX OS projects. This role is based in California and partners with multiple engineering teams to drive open source adoption and sustainable community practices.

You will design governance models, build scalable community infrastructure, and implement CI checks and contributor tooling. Equity and benefits accompany a competitive base salary in a fast-growing AI environment.

Qualifications

12+ years of relevant experience.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Experience driving adoption of open source practices across multiple engineering teams and turning a stated policy into how teams actually work day to day.
Experience crafting open source governance including pathways for contributors, maintainer roles, and decision-making processes that's lightweight enough for teams to actually use.
Strong software engineering skills, with a track record of building the automation an open source program depends on: CI checks, PR review tooling, metrics pipelines.
Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) as part of your actual engineering workflow, not just casual use.
Experience running open source community programs with infrastructure, events, contributor engagement and with real accountability for participation and turnout.
An ownership mentality where you take responsibility for managing a team's open source adoption and its community, end to end

Responsibilities

Drive adoption of open source standard methodologies. Partner with product teams to ensure open source hygiene and governance practices are consistently applied in everyday work.
Design open source governance. Work with each team to help them design a governance model that fits how they actually work — who owns what, how decisions get made, how contributors get a real path in.
Grow active contribution. Help teams turn interested outsiders into real contributors — code, docs, ideas — building the kind of community that actually strengthens the project.
Provision and run community infrastructure. Own infrastructure for community engagement — Slack, community meetings, collaboration spaces — for every project as it comes online, and own its ongoing lifecycle.
Build the post-launch plan. Develop and run the 30/60/90-day plan supporting a repo’s shift from just open source to an active, well-governed project. It addresses community, transparency, governance, marketing, and security posture soon after launch.
Design the contributor path and its first-pass review. Build isolated, contributor-safe CI that validates external pull requests without touching internal infrastructure, and the end-to-end path from starter issue to contribution guide to automated review — including a check that screens each PR for quality signal before a maintainer looks at it.
Monitor community health. Track engagement across community channels, run the operational side of external events, and build automated metrics so program health is visible without manual reporting.
Turn engagements into playbooks. Package every readiness engagement into a reusable playbook, so each subsequent project moves faster than the last.