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Open Source Community and Growth Lead

NVIDIA· Engineer, SW
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Hybrid (Remote / Santa Clara, CA)$200k - $322kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

NVIDIA DSX OS open source foundation seeks a leader to design governance, build community infrastructure, and drive adoption and sustainability of DSX OS projects from launch through active community-built development.

Responsibilities

  • Drive adoption of open source standard methodologies. Partner with product teams to ensure open source hygiene and governance practices are applied in everyday work.
  • Design open source governance. Help teams design governance models that fit their workflows, including ownership, decision-making, and contributor paths.
  • Grow active contribution. Turn outsiders into real contributors across code, docs, and ideas to strengthen the project.
  • Provision and run community infrastructure. Own infrastructure for community engagement (Slack, meetings, collaboration spaces) for each project and manage its lifecycle.
  • Build the post-launch plan. Develop and run a 30/60/90-day plan to move a repo from open source to actively governed with focus on community, transparency, governance, marketing, and security posture.
  • Design the contributor path and first-pass review. Create contributor-safe CI, end-to-end contribution path, and automated PR quality checks before maintainer review.
  • Monitor community health. Track engagement, run events, and build automated metrics for program health visibility.
  • Turn engagements into playbooks. Package readiness engagements into reusable playbooks to accelerate future projects.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of relevant experience
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
  • Background with driving adoption of open source practices across multiple engineering teams and translating policy into day-to-day work
  • Experience crafting open source governance including contributor pathways, maintainer roles, and decision-making processes
  • Strong software engineering skills with automation experience (CI checks, PR tooling, metrics pipelines)
  • Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) in actual engineering workflow
  • Experience running open source community programs with infrastructure, events, contributor engagement, and accountability for participation
  • Ownership mentality for end-to-end open source adoption and community management

Skills

Required:Open source governance designCommunity infrastructure and toolingContributor path design and PR workflowAutomation and CI toolingMetrics and program health trackingAgentic coding tools

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits (per NVIDIA benefits)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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