Senior Developer Relations Manager – World Models Robotics - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 August 2026 by the employer.
Lead developer and partner adoption of Cosmos 3 in the Robotics ecosystem.
About the role
This role involves leading developer and partner adoption of Cosmos 3 and the Cosmos world foundation model family across the Robotics ecosystem. You will guide developers applying Cosmos 3 to close the data gap for robots and autonomous systems, from synthetic data generation to reasoning and neural simulation.
What you'll do
- Serve as a technical advisor for developers and partner engineering teams adopting Cosmos 3 across synthetic data generation and world-model workflows.
- Drive global adoption of Cosmos world foundation models with strategic partners, AI labs, and members of the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition.
- Build and maintain deep expertise in NVIDIA’s Physical AI stack, focusing on world foundation models, post-training of WFMs, and video/action data curation.
- Track emerging trends in world models, video generation, and physical-AI reasoning to identify new opportunities for the Cosmos platform.
- Champion robotic ecosystem partners internally, providing feedback to NVIDIA’s Cosmos product and research teams to influence future roadmaps.
- Support product launches and marketing activities for events using ecosystem partner success stories.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of professional experience with Vision and Perception algorithms, Robotics, or AI deployment.
- Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong foundation in deep learning algorithms, including hands-on experience with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal generative models, and World Foundation Models.
- Working knowledge of Physical AI data workflows: large-scale video curation, captioning/annotation, domain randomization, and sim-to-real augmentation.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse audiences and to structure and implement complex technical engagements.
Skills: developer relations, world models, robotics, physical AI, synthetic data
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, world models, robotics, physical AI, synthetic data
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.