Senior Technical Program Manager – Robotics

Details

At NVIDIA, we are accelerating Physical AI by unifying robotics, simulation, generative AI, and data-driven training pipelines. We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead the operational support of the Robotics Developer Relations (Dev Rel) team. This role works alongside product, engineering, and research teams and plays a crucial role in driving innovation and collaboration across the robotics ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-track robotics programs with high-priority partners—define outcomes, coordinate dependencies, and drive 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 teams by leading weekly ecosystem meetings; identify risks early (product gaps, data issues, compute constraints, resourcing needs) and coordinate mitigation plans with engineering and other partners.
• Maintain documentation repositories for repeatable, scalable, and consistent communication and provide transparent reporting that demonstrates partner engagement and progress toward team targets.
• Provide quality updates to collaborators and executive audiences and share structured feedback with product, engineering, and research teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, robotics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience; master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of program management or engineering experience in robotics, AI/ML, data platforms, or embedded systems.
• Demonstrated operational leadership that drives process for productivity and team success.
• Familiarity with robotics simulation platforms such as 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.

Ways to stand out

• Experience supporting robotics research, robot learning, foundation models, or robotics advancements based on computer simulations.
• Practical experience working directly with NVIDIA robotics and AI tools (Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, OpenUSD, Cosmos, Jetson, CUDA-X).
• Demonstrated success growing developer ecosystems through technical enablement and partner acceleration.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary ranges by level: Level 4: 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD; Level 5: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD.
• Eligible for equity and a comprehensive benefits package (see https://www.nvidiabenefits.com/).

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until January 17, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or promotion practices on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.