Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Robotics Manipulation

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 research to productized, supported platform capabilities.
• 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 world, not just the lab.
• 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 platform and onto physical arms.
• 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 APIs and tools meet real workflows.
• Support our ecosystem of developers through responsible migration handling of their solutions built on our durable platform.

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