NVIDIA is a leader in Artificial Intelligence and Physical AI, seeking a Senior Developer Advocate Engineer to enhance their Open Hackathons and Bootcamps program. The role involves collaborating with developers to adopt NVIDIA's accelerated computing stack, mentoring participants, and building a community around AI in robotics and digital twins.
Responsibilities:
- Stay abreast of the latest developments in robotics, physical AI, digital twins, and develop proof-of-concept solutions for real-world applications
- Build and refine training materials and mentor team members solving real-world problems using NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Cosmos, and related stacks to create simulations, digital twins, and robotics workflows, etc
- Collaborate and provide feedback to NVIDIA product teams to help with product adoption, bugs, feature requests, and additional activities through our hackathon program
- Promote through publishing blogs and papers, facilitating presentations, and using other media that convey the impact of the work accomplished by teams at the hackathons
- Mentor developers and researchers to integrate NVIDIA technology using Omniverse, Cosmos, synthetic data, and coding-agent-assisted digital twins workflows to define architectures, compute footprints, test plans, and rollout strategies
- Strategize, identify, and assess potential sites, mentors, and key applications for Open Hackathons and Bootcamps
- Assess each hackathon's computing and software infrastructure
- Write comprehensive internal feedback reports and find opportunities for improvement
Requirements:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant field (or equivalent experience)
- 12+ years of relevant enterprise experience in developing robotics, physical AI, digital twins, simulation, or auto/AV solutions at scale, including synthetic data generation, evaluation, benchmarking, inference optimization, and deployment
- Fluent in using the NVIDIA accelerated computing stack for HPC and AI workloads
- Capability to think strategically, while jumping directly into day-to-day event and account management
- Ability to thrive in a highly dynamic environment and to lead change through multi-functional teamwork
- Proven ability to understand partners' goals and distill that feedback into an action plan that addresses core needs
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience in deploying and managing data center-scale applications with Omniverse, Cosmos, or embodied AI toolchains
- Active OSS contributions in robotics, simulation, physical AI, 3D perception, or autonomy infrastructure
- Experience in facilitating and instructing at group training events