Director, AI Enablement

NVIDIA is hiring a Director, AI Enablement in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $292k-$443k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Level classifies it as an executive role.
Level lists 1,800+ other open roles at NVIDIA.

AI in this role

NVIDIA is hiring an engineering director to enable and accelerate AI adoption and agentic developments across various eng and non-eng workflows within the company. As an engineer director on AI Enablement, you will be responsible for enabling start-of-the-art AI technologies and help transform Nvidia to an AI native company with speed of light, for SW development, HW development and beyond.

You should bring deep AI industry experience and technology insights to develop an AI enablement roadmap. You will develop technologies to accelerate AI adoption and optimize AI development for a wide range of NVIDIA workflows. You will work with a large number of cross-organizational leaders to use AI to improve NVIDIA productivity in general. We are building a team that will truly change the world with AI. Are you passionate about using AI to transform how we develop products and how we work everyday? We are excited to have a mission driven AI leader like you join our team!

What you’ll be doing:

Responsible for building industry and AI insights into AI enablement and agentic development
Accelerate NVIDIA productivity by developing best state of the art AI systems
Produce tools, services, blueprints for NVIDIA AI developers
Work organizational leaders and developers across the company as well as external partners to adapt and develop AI technologies to address NVIDIA growth needs.

What we need to see:

BE (MS preferred) or equivalent experience in EE/CS or related technology fields with 15+ overall years of work experience, including 8+ years of management experience.
Deep AI knowledge and industry insights on latest AI technology innovations
Proven record on AI native development, well versed with AI technologies including LLM, ML, Agentic development, and all the common AI tools from frontier provides and the OSS community
Proven record on developing and executing highly complex products and team management
Ability to effectively work across organizational boundaries to enhance alignment and productivity between teams.
A lot of energy to execute fast and willingness to learn and adapt quickly, to match the speed of AI innovations, and deliver with Speed of Light (SOL)

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Proactively track AI technology trends, build insights, and innovate to address issues before they emerge
Deep experience in designing and launching large software projects at enterprise scale with AI.
Strong track record on team and stakeholder management across multiple organizations

We have some of the most forward-thinking and versatile people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our best-in-class engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you are passionate about AI technologies, care about software quality and productivity, and want to be part of the future of AI, I would love for you to join us.

#LI-Hybrid

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 292,000 USD – 442,750 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

How we rate this

Director, AI Enablement at NVIDIA rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Director, AI Enablement is an open job at NVIDIA.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $292k-$443k a year.
The role is based in US, CA, Santa Clara.
The job was posted on September 15, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by NVIDIA. Apply on NVIDIA

Get new AI jobs (Works on AI ●●●○ or higher) by email

One email a week with the new AI jobs (Works on AI ●●●○ or higher), each rated for how much AI is in the work. No recruiter spam, unsubscribe in one click.

Free. One email a week. Unsubscribe in one click.