Director, Forward Deployed Engineering

We are seeking a founding Director to build and lead NVIDIA's Forward Deployed Engineering organization for open models, including NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos, across North America.

The mission is to turn open models into production-ready AI tuned to a specific domain, delivered through our partner ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Set the strategy and lead the team that delivers custom AI to end customers through NVIDIA's partner ecosystem.
• Hire and develop FDE leads, managers, and senior engineers across North America, and set a high bar for technical depth and customer impact.
• Set the technical direction for post-training, evaluation, harness engineering, and inference optimization.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders at partner and end-customer companies, shape joint plans and agreements, and see three-way engagements through to production.
• Connect NVIDIA's model research to partner and customer use cases.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 14+ overall years in ML or software engineering, applied AI, FDE, or solutions architecture, including 8+ years leading technical teams and 5+ years of hands-on LLM post-training with models taken to production.
• Deep technical credibility in post-training, model architectures, synthetic data, and evaluation, plus agent harness engineering and optimization for LLM and agentic systems.
• Proven ability to build alignment across multiple partners and customers on the same engagement, including at the executive level.

Nice to Have:

• Experience building and scaling an FDE, applied research, or solutions organization from an early stage.
• History of building partner-led programs, ecosystems motions.
• Hands-on experience with Nemotron, Cosmos, and other open models, as well as serverless and self-managed post-training platforms.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.