NVIDIA
Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Robotics Manipulation
$272K–$489K
US, CA, Santa Clara +5 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin
US, VA, Charlottesville
US, NC, Durham
US, CO, Boulder
US, VA, Herndon - Experience
- 12+ total years of relevant industry experience, including 3+ years leading, mentoring, and managing engineering teams.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Leads NVIDIA’s Isaac Manipulation team, strategy, and delivery of robotics capabilities for robotic arms, from research through real-world deployment.
What you'll do
- Recruit, mentor, and manage the engineering team; set technical direction and oversee delivery.
- Define the product roadmap for manipulation capabilities and translate industrial tasks into robust, supported platform features.
- Coordinate research, product, partners, and developers to deploy manipulation software on physical robots using accelerated computing.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 12+ total 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, physics, grasping, motion planning, control, and perception-guided manipulation.
- Working understanding of GPU-accelerated computing and ML infrastructure; strong software engineering fundamentals in modern C++ and Python.
Nice to have
- Experience building manipulation or industrial automation products; developer-facing or low-code platforms across robot-arm brands.
- Experience with learned manipulation and shipping policies to hardware, or contributions to ROS 2, ros2_control, MoveIt, or robotics open source.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary, Level 4); 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD (base salary, Level 5)
Tools
CUDA, PyTorch, Python, C++, ROS 2, ros2_control, MoveIt, Isaac GR00T
AI focus
Leads development and deployment of learned manipulation policies, including imitation and reinforcement learning, sim-to-real approaches, and manipulation foundation-model integration.
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