Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Robotics Manipulation

NVIDIA
Santa Clara, Austin, Durham, Boulder
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 272,000 - 488,750 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Mentorship","Leadership","Roadmap execution","Partnering"]

Lead NVIDIA’s Isaac Manipulation organization, owning the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for grasping, motion planning and control, perception-for-manipulation, and learned manipulation policies. Grow and mentor a robotics software engineering team, bridge research and product with Isaac Sim/Lab and foundation-model teams, and partner with OEMs, system integrators, and developers to ship capabilities and tools that work on real robot arms using NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, and accelerated compute.

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Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Robotics Manipulation

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Job Summary

Lead NVIDIA’s Isaac Manipulation organization, owning the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for grasping, motion planning and control, perception-for-manipulation, and learned manipulation policies. Grow and mentor a robotics software engineering team, bridge research and product with Isaac Sim/Lab and foundation-model teams, and partner with OEMs, system integrators, and developers to ship capabilities and tools that work on real robot arms using NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, and accelerated compute.
Location: Santa Clara, Austin, Durham, Boulder
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the Isaac Manipulation team—recruit, grow, and mentor robotics software engineers; set direction, raise the technical bar, and manage delivery.
  • •Shape and drive the roadmap with Product Management for grasping, motion planning and control, perception-for-manipulation, and learned manipulation policies.
  • •Translate contact-rich industrial manipulation tasks in manufacturing, logistics, assembly, and machine tending into robust real-world capabilities.
  • •Bridge research and product by partnering with NVIDIA Research, Isaac Sim/Lab, and foundation-model teams to bring sim-to-real, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning into the platform.
  • •Represent Isaac Manipulation externally to OEMs, system integrators, and the developer community, and ensure APIs/tools support real workflows and migrations.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 272,000 - 488,750 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • •12+ years of relevant industry experience building robotics or robotics-adjacent systems, including 3+ years leading, mentoring, and managing engineering teams.
  • •Hands-on expertise with robotic arms, manipulation, and physics across grasping, motion planning, and contact-rich control to perception-guided manipulation.
  • •Working understanding of GPU-accelerated computing and modern ML infrastructure, and how to architect robotics software to use CUDA, PyTorch, GPU-accelerated simulation, and edge inference.
  • •Demonstrated ability to work directly with external partners, customers, and developer communities and translate needs into roadmap and shipped product.
Experience:12+ yearsRoboticsMachine learningIndustrial automation
Education:
Skills:MentorshipLeadershipRoadmap executionPartnering
Tech Stack:C++PythonCUDAPyTorchGPU-accelerated simulationEdge inferenceJetsonIsaac SimIsaac LabIsaac ROSIsaac GR00TCosmosROS 2Ros2_controlMoveIt

Company Brief

NVIDIA
Designs and manufactures GPUs, AI accelerators, and system-on-chip products for gaming, data centers, professional visualization, and automotive markets, enabling advanced graphics, AI, and high-performance computing solutions worldwide.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 1993
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