Developer Relations Manager, Higher Education and Research - Foundational AI

NVIDIA
Toronto
Full timeCAD 170,000 - 275,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: phdSkills: ["Technical advising","Research engagement","Ecosystem knowledge","Translating feedback","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Engage leading academic labs to advance foundational AI research, from LLMs and multimodal models to reasoning and scalable inference. Serve as a trusted technical advisor, identify high-impact research workloads for NVIDIA’s AI platforms, and translate academic feedback into actionable insights for product roadmaps and developer programs. Partner cross-functionally across research, engineering, and business teams, and support NVIDIA participation in major AI venues through technical content, workshops, and lab-facing programs.

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Developer Relations Manager, Higher Education and Research - Foundational AI

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Job Summary

Engage leading academic labs to advance foundational AI research, from LLMs and multimodal models to reasoning and scalable inference. Serve as a trusted technical advisor, identify high-impact research workloads for NVIDIA’s AI platforms, and translate academic feedback into actionable insights for product roadmaps and developer programs. Partner cross-functionally across research, engineering, and business teams, and support NVIDIA participation in major AI venues through technical content, workshops, and lab-facing programs.
Location: Toronto
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as a trusted technical advisor to leading academic AI labs working on foundation models, LLMs, multimodal AI, reasoning, training, inference, and AI systems.
  • •Identify high-impact research workloads where NVIDIA software, systems, and accelerated computing platforms can improve model performance, scale, and efficiency.
  • •Engage principal investigators, postdocs, graduate researchers, and lab leadership to understand research goals, technical blockers, infrastructure needs, and collaboration opportunities.
  • •Track frontier AI research across papers, benchmarks, open-source projects, and academic labs to identify emerging trends and future platform opportunities.
  • •Represent researcher needs internally by translating academic feedback into actionable insights for product roadmaps, developer programs, education, and platform strategy; support NVIDIA participation in major AI venues via technical content, workshops, and lab-facing programs.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 170,000 - 275,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent research depth.
  • •8+ years of experience.
  • •Deep expertise in foundational AI, including LLMs, multimodal models, generative AI, reasoning, post-training, model evaluation, or AI systems research.
  • •Strong understanding of modern AI model development across pretraining through deployment, including model serving.
  • •Hands-on experience with AI research stacks and workflows such as PyTorch, JAX, distributed training frameworks, inference systems, and GPU-accelerated execution.
Experience:8+ yearsFoundational AILLMsMultimodal AIDistributed trainingInference systems
Education:PhD / Doctorate
Skills:Technical advisingResearch engagementEcosystem knowledgeTranslating feedbackCross-functional collaboration
Tech Stack:PyTorchJAXCUDACUDA-XTensorRT-LLMTriton Inference ServerNIMNeMoMegatronTransformer EngineNCCLDGXNVLinkInfiniBandNVIDIA AI Enterprise

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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