Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Open Models
Core
Build and lead NVIDIA's Forward Deployed Engineering organization for open models (Nemotron, Cosmos) across North America, turning open models into production-ready AI via the partner ecosystem.
Role type
Founding Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (Open Models)
Builds
Custom AI solutions for end customers through NVIDIA's partner ecosystem
Domain
AI / Machine Learning / Open Source Models / Partner Ecosystem
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM post-training, agent harness engineering, technical team leadership, partner ecosystem management, distributed training optimization, SOW scoping
Preferred skills
Early-stage org building, ecosystem motions, multimodal post-training, large GPU cluster management
Technologies
NVIDIA Nemotron, NVIDIA Cosmos, NVIDIA NeMo, Megatron, SLURM, Kubernetes, LoRA/PEFT, SFT, RLHF
Responsibilities
Set strategy and lead team delivering custom AI via partners; Hire and develop FDE leads/managers; Define technical direction for post-training and inference; Build partner relationships and drive three-way engagements; Connect model research to customer use cases.
Seniority
Director, Founding / Hands-on IC
