Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Robotics Manipulation

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead the Isaac Manipulation team. Recruit, grow, and mentor a high-performing team of robotics software engineers; set direction, raise the technical bar, and manage the team’s health, velocity, and delivery.
• Shape the roadmap. Collaborate with Product Management to define and drive the strategy and roadmap for grasping, motion planning and control, perception-for-manipulation, and learned manipulation policies — from…
• Apply creative solutions to real industrial problems. Translate the hardest contact-rich manipulation tasks in manufacturing, logistics, assembly, and machine tending into robust capabilities that work in the real…
• Bridge research and product. Partner with NVIDIA Research, the Isaac Sim/Lab teams, and foundation-model teams (e.g., Isaac GR00T, Cosmos) to bring sim-to-real, imitation, and reinforcement learning approaches into the…
• Engage partners and developers. Serve as a technical face of Isaac Manipulation to robot-arm OEMs, system integrators, and the developer community — gathering requirements, running joint engineering, and ensuring our…
• Leverage accelerated compute. Drive architecture and execution that fully uses NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, and the accelerated-computing stack across simulation, training, and on-robot inference on Jetson and edge platforms.
• Deliver. Drive planning and execution of complex, multi-functional programs; own quality, performance, and the real-world deployment of learned policies and manipulation stacks on physical robots.
• Influence the strategy. Represent manipulation in platform-level technical and business decisions, and help shape where NVIDIA invests across the robotics stack.