Senior Developer Relations Manager – GR00T End-to-End Workflow - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 August 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on enabling partners to adopt the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T end-to-end workflow for robotics.
About the role
This role involves owning developer and partner adoption of the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T end-to-end workflow, a full-stack platform for robotics spanning data capture, synthetic trajectory generation, foundation-model post-training, simulation-based evaluation, and real-time deployment on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, embodied in the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot.
What you'll do
- Serve as a technical advisor for partners adopting the GR00T End-to-End Workflow.
- Guide robotic ecosystem partners in architecting end-to-end adoption of GR00T, focusing on model deployment.
- Represent partner needs internally to influence Isaac, GEAR research, and Jetson product roadmaps.
- Build and maintain expertise in NVIDIA robotics SDKs and platforms: Isaac GR00T, Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, Isaac ROS, Newton, Isaac Teleop, and Jetson Thor.
- Support product launches and event marketing activities using ecosystem partner success stories.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of professional experience in robotics or autonomous vehicles.
- Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related technical field – or equivalent experience.
- Technical background in at least two of: robot foundation models, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, robot simulation, synthetic data generation, or embedded/edge deployment.
- Hands-on experience with robot learning frameworks and tools (e.g., LeRobot, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo).
- Hands-on experience with deploying models on embedded platforms (Jetson or comparable).
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
Skills: Developer Relations Manager, robotics, GR00T end-to-end workflow, model deployment, Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim
This role has been open 67 days — well above the 45-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
102
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Median days open
45 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (102 roles · 19 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 59 | 102 |
| Median days open | 45 d | 45 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: Developer Relations Manager, robotics, GR00T end-to-end workflow, model deployment, Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 59 open roles · median 45 d
- AMD · 11 open roles · median 59 d
- Tenstorrent · 9 open roles · median 30 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 50 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 3 open roles · median 38 d
- Intel Corporation · 2 open roles · median 15 d
How we counted: 102 open Applications FAE (AI ML Hardware) roles from 19 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.