Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s children built careers from internships, not inherited executive roles

By Phong Ngo August 14, 2025 | 08:09 pm PT

While many children of tech founders inherit leadership roles, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s daughter, Madison, and son, Spencer, began at the world’s most valuable company as interns, building their paths from the ground up.

Madison joined Nvidia in 2020 while Spencer joined in 2022. Madison began as a marketing intern before becoming product marketing manager for the Omniverse division, which develops digital twin technology for virtual factory design, Live Mint reported.

Spencer started as a product manager in the Isaac Sim Cloud team, which provides cloud-based simulation services, before becoming robotics product line manager, developing AI models and simulation software for robots.

In FY25, Madison earned about $1.1 million and Spencer around $530,000, including salaries, bonuses, and benefits.

Madison Huang, daughter of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Photo from Nvidia

Before Nvidia, both worked in fields unrelated to technology. Madison was a chef in New York and San Francisco after studying confectionery and wine at France’s cooking school Le Cordon Bleu. Spencer co-ran a "Cocktail Lab" in Taipei, creating and selling "award-winning" cocktail recipes, and studied Chinese at the National Taiwan University.

In 2019, the siblings took a short AI course together at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later pursued MBAs - Madison at London Business School and Spencer at New York University.

Tech site Wccftech noted that many Nvidia employees’ children work at the company, with Huang saying the "second generation" might outperform their parents.

Spencer Huang, son of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Photo courtesy of Spencer's LinkedIn

Huang shares his two children with wife of 40 years Lori, whom he met while they were engineering students at Oregon State University. According to the New York Post, Huang told her when he was 17 that he would become a CEO by age 30, a goal he achieved in 1993 when he founded Nvidia. Under his leadership, the company became the world’s most valuable, reaching a $4 trillion valuation and the first in the world to hit the milestone, according to CNBC.

Lori, who keeps a low profile, co-founded the philanthropic Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, which donates to public health initiatives. Jensen has credited his wife and daughter with his signature black leather jacket style, telling HP’s online show The Moment: "I’m happy that my wife and my daughter dresses me."