Ross attended New York University, according to Crunchbase. He worked on Google's TPU chips before founding Groq, which he built as an inference-chip challenger to Nvidia. He served as Groq's founder and chief executive and sat on its board.
Nvidia announced its deal with Groq on December 24, 2025, and Ross started work at Nvidia on Christmas Day 2025. The transaction allocated $17 billion to a license Nvidia called non-exclusive, shared among Groq's backers, plus $3 billion of Nvidia restricted stock units for the roughly 150 to 200 engineers who moved, Ross among them. President Sunny Madra went with him; Simon Edwards became Groq's chief executive and GroqCloud kept running. Crunchbase lists Ross as Nvidia's chief software architect, based in Santa Clara, California.
The structure has drawn scrutiny. The Inference reported in September 2026 that the Department of Justice demanded Nvidia's Groq files to test whether the license was a merger in disguise, and in October 2026 that engineers left behind at Groq sued its board to reprice the deal.
Sources · written 16 October 2026
