Technical Product Marketing Manager - Robotics Runtime - US, CA, Santa Clara
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves defining product positioning, developing technically credible messaging, and driving go-to-market programs for technologies that enable developers to build, deploy, and optimize AI-powered robots in production. The focus is on the ROS and edge runtime ecosystem, including NVIDIA Isaac ROS and future runtime technologies.
What you'll do
- Lead technical product marketing for NVIDIA's edge runtime software portfolio.
- Define positioning, messaging, differentiation, go-to-market strategy, and launch plans for an end-to-end runtime platform for production robots.
- Define positioning and go-to-market programs for robot mobility and navigation workflows, including localization, mapping, and path planning.
- Build awareness and adoption for robot manipulation and autonomy workflows, including motion planning and control based on sensory input.
- Develop market intelligence and strategic partnerships across ROS and ROS 2, robotics middleware, perception, navigation, manipulation, edge AI, and embedded computing.
What you'll need
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in technical product marketing, product marketing, product management, or developer marketing in robotics software, edge AI, embedded systems, or developer platforms.
- Experience in the ROS or edge runtime ecosystem, including ROS 2, robotics middleware, AI inference, embedded computing, or production robot deployment.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux, Python or C++, containers, APIs, SDKs, and Git-based developer workflows.
- Proven success crafting go-to-market strategy and launches for highly technical software products.
- Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation abilities for developer, technical, business, and executive audiences.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience building or deploying ROS 2 robotics applications across sensor processing, visual SLAM, mapping, localization, navigation, manipulation, or motion planning.
- Experience with NVIDIA Isaac ROS, CUDA, TensorRT, DeepStream, Nav2, MoveIt 2, or comparable robotics software.
- Background with optimizing AI inference and robotics workloads for embedded or edge environments.
- Experience marketing open-source software, SDKs, APIs, developer tools, or edge AI platforms.
- Published technical content, conference presentations, open-source contributions, or active participation in the robotics developer community.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 57-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
679
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$205k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (679 roles · 72 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 140 | 679 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1001 | 5948 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 57 d (−10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 162 open roles · median 64 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 132 open roles · median 47 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 51 d
- Broadcom · 26 open roles · median 51 d
- Mobileye · 24 open roles · median 63 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 90 d
How we counted: 679 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 72 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.