Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Open Models

Responsibilities

• This role sets the strategy and leads the team that delivers custom AI to end customers through NVIDIA’s partner ecosystem. The team deepens partner relationships and leads three-way engagements among NVIDIA, the partner, and the end customer. Our goal is hundreds of end customers running domain-specific Nemotron or…
• Hire and develop FDE leads, managers, and senior engineers across North America, and set a high bar for technical depth and customer impact.
• Create clear paths for growth and a team structure that scales with the ecosystem.
• The work stays technical.
• Set the technical direction for post-training, evaluation, harness engineering, and inference optimization, and be the person the team turns to on the hardest engagements. Keep up with the open model, post-training, and agents landscape, and bring new use cases and partner opportunities forward before partners ask.
• Partners are how we reach customers at scale.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders at partner and end-customer companies, shape joint plans and agreements, and see three-way engagements through to production.
• Set clear goals and track the results: partners adopting Nemotron, customers running in production, and customers willing to speak publicly. We help partners succeed on their own with reusable recipes, reference pipelines, and playbooks, so more developers can build domain-specific AI.
• We connect NVIDIA’s model research to partner and customer use cases. Work with Product
• Research, and Engineering to bring what we see in the field back into Nemotron, Cosmos, and our software stack, and share what works with FDE leaders in other regions. Align priorities and resources with sales, partner, and solutions leaders, keep senior leadership informed on progress, and speak on NVIDIA…

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