Federal Account Manager, Disruptor Tech

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Hiring Remotely in CA, USA
Remote
200K-305K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
Own and grow NVIDIA’s strategic relationship with a defense technology customer. Build executive partnerships, develop account strategies, coordinate ecosystem partners, and drive adoption of NVIDIA hardware and software across autonomy, AI, simulation, remote sensing, and edge deployment. Lead complex technical and commercial opportunities from evaluation through production, build qualified pipeline, close revenue-generating deals, and align internal technical and business teams around customer mission requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In

NVIDIA is seeking an Account Manager to join our U.S. Public Sector team and grow our strategic relationship with Anduril, bringing together accelerated computing, artificial intelligence, and next-generation defense technology. This role will build trusted executive partnerships and drive adoption of NVIDIA's accelerated computing platforms across autonomy, remote sensing, agentic AI, and computer-aided engineering. You will help shape the customer’s autonomy and artificial intelligence roadmap by connecting NVIDIA platforms across development, simulation, and edge deployment to their engineering challenges and mission requirements. Working with solution architects, developer relations, and developer technology teams, you will build a pipeline aligned with customer missions and turn technical collaboration into design wins, program wins, and sustained growth.


What you'll be doing:

  • Own the customer relationship end to end. Build trusted executive partnerships across engineering, information technology, manufacturing, and corporate strategy. Understand the customer’s autonomy and artificial intelligence roadmap and position NVIDIA technologies and partners as the strategic choice.
  • Develop and implement account strategy. Build multi-year plans that deliver sustained business growth. Coordinate partners, resellers, and systems integrators to expand adoption and customer impact.
  • Embed NVIDIA into customer platforms. Drive integration of NVIDIA's hardware, libraries, and frameworks across autonomy, remote sensing, agentic AI, and CAE to accelerate deployment and shared growth.
  • Identify and close transformational opportunities. Partner with NVIDIA solution architects to define, develop, and close opportunities that drive growth by advancing NVIDIA hardware and software from technical evaluation to production deployment.
  • Lead collaboration across NVIDIA. Align solution architects, developer relations, developer technology, and business teams around customer workloads, technical priorities, and commercial outcomes.
  • Be a defense technology market expert. Stay current on mission needs, competitive dynamics, and emerging applications across autonomy and artificial intelligence, from development and simulation to edge deployment.
  • Engage the ecosystem. Develop relationships with OEM, CSP, and ISV peers to expand adoption of NVIDIA commercial technologies.

What we need to see:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in technology sales, strategic account management, or business development, including experience serving defense customers.
  • Understanding of defense missions and how operational requirements shape engineering priorities, technology selection, and program decisions.
  • Understanding of autonomy stacks across development, training, simulation, validation, and edge inference, including latency, power, computing, and deployment constraints.
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA hardware and software platforms and their application to customer engineering challenges and mission requirements.
  • Demonstrated success building executive relationships, establishing technical credibility, and leading collaboration across technical and business teams.
  • A record of developing qualified pipeline, closing complex opportunities, achieving revenue targets, and maintaining accurate forecasts.
  • Strong communication, listening, analytical, and account planning skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • A technical background at a defense technology company, major technology company, or software company serving defense customers.
  • Experience supporting autonomy & AI programs across development infrastructure, simulation environments, and deployed edge systems.
  • Deep knowledge of NVIDIA hardware architectures, software libraries, and developer tools, with experience driving customer adoption.
  • Military mission or operational experience and established relationships across the defense technology industry.
  • An active security clearance.

Your cash compensation will be determined based on your location, experience and the pay of employees in similar positions with 85% paid through base salary and 15% variable compensation. The cash compensation range is 200,000 USD - 304,750 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 31, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience in technology sales, strategic account management, or business development
  • Experience serving defense customers
  • Understanding of defense missions and how operational requirements influence engineering priorities, technology selection, and program decisions
  • Understanding of autonomy stacks spanning development, training, simulation, validation, and edge inference
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA hardware and software platforms and their application to engineering and mission requirements
  • Experience building executive relationships and leading collaboration across technical and business teams
  • Demonstrated success developing qualified pipeline, closing complex opportunities, achieving revenue targets, and maintaining accurate forecasts
  • Strong communication, listening, analytical, and account planning skills
  • Technical background at a defense technology, major technology, or software company serving defense customers
  • Experience supporting autonomy and AI programs across development infrastructure, simulation environments, and deployed edge systems
  • Deep knowledge of NVIDIA hardware architectures, software libraries, and developer tools
  • Military mission or operational experience and established defense technology industry relationships
  • Active security clearance

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.”

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