We’re looking for a dynamic, mission-driven Developer Relations Manager to support NVIDIA Inception Program AI-native startups. In this role, you’ll work directly with founders and engineering teams to help them design, build, and deploy accelerated AI solutions using NVIDIA platforms and technologies. This position is ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation who enjoys working closely with startups, solving real engineering problems, and helping developers succeed.
What You'll Be Doing:
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to Inception AI-native startups, understanding their critical workloads and guiding technical enablement across the NVIDIA stack.
Partner with startups to integrate NVIDIA foundational models, SDKs, and frameworks, enabling co-innovation and the development of next-generation AI solutions.
Map, build, and expand a rich ecosystem of strategic startups to champion NVIDIA technologies, track ecosystem trends, and multiply growth opportunities.
Collaborate multi-functionally with solution architects, engineering, product management, and marketing to drive startup engagement and optimize partner adoption strategies.
Work closely with startup engineering teams, technical leaders, and decision-makers to unpack goals, tackle technical challenges, and endorse protocols for successful integrations.
Advocate for the startup's technical needs and funnel feedback to NVIDIA’s internal product and engineering teams, supplying actionable insights from field deployments to influence product roadmaps.
What We Need To See:
BS/MS in AI, Data Science, or a computer science-related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of overall industry experience in software engineering, developer relations, technical partnerships, or related roles, including 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI.
Proven experience leading technical partnerships, focusing on AI.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse technical and non-technical audiences, from engineers to executives.
Proven ability to structure and implement complex technical engagements, negotiate requirements, prioritize issues, and collaborate with internal or external customers (across sales, legal, product, or marketing teams as needed).
Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:
Deep familiarity with NVIDIA’s Generative AI, Agentic AI, and/or Physical AI platforms and products.
Experience working directly with early-stage or high-growth startups in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
A builder mindset
NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers! We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and 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.Skills Required
- BS/MS in AI, Data Science, or a computer science-related field
- 5+ years of overall industry experience in software engineering, developer relations, or related roles
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI, Generative AI, or Physical AI
- Experience leading technical partnerships, focusing on AI
NVIDIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NVIDIA and has not been reviewed or approved by NVIDIA.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity awards and a discounted ESPP are highlighted as core parts of total compensation, enabling employees to share in the company’s success. Stock-based compensation and the two-year lookback ESPP are consistently described as especially valuable.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as robust, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options alongside mental health support and on-site care resources. Employer HSA contributions and wellness perks reinforce the depth of the offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are depicted as strong, featuring a meaningful 401(k) match with Roth options and support for Mega Backdoor Roth contributions. These elements position long-term savings as a notable advantage of the total rewards package.
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NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”
