Job Details

Robotics will have a massive positive impact on the world economy and global human productivity over the coming decade. At Foxglove, we're excited for this future, and we're building powerful open source and commercial tools to accelerate it.

We're an experienced team of independent thinkers, with a passion for creating high quality products. We're looking for self-motivated and fast-learning individuals to join our mission.

About the role

Foxglove is a robotics observability and visualization platform. We manage and provide access to large amounts of data across both our hosted platform and customer sites.

Were seeking a highly skilled product and data-oriented Product Engineer with professional experience developing on-device software for developers to provide observability and connectivity. Youll work with other engineers to design and develop our SDK, user interfaces, on-device software, connectivity and data ingestion systems.

Location

We're a small, hybrid remote company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.

This role is onsite in our San Francisco office, but we are open to remote for highly experienced candidates with prior experience at a leading robotics or autonomous vehicle company.

Key Responsibilities

• Integrating with a variety of robotics frameworks and multiple-language SDKs
• Building reliable, low-resource utilization software to run on a myriad of devices
• Providing connectivity, observability and telemetry on devices running in constrained environments or in the field
• Building distributed systems to collect and transform observability data
• Multi-cloud architecture (we deploy in customer cloud accounts across GCP/AWS/Azure)

Our technical stack includes:

• Rust
• Node.js (TypeScript)
• PostgreSQL
• Managed Kubernetes environments in GCP
• Customer deployments in Azure and AWS

What we're looking for

• 8+ years professional experience in writing high-performance production software
• Significant professional experience building on-device software in C++ or Rust
• Familiarity with ROS, or other robotics stacks
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling
• Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
• Bonus points:
  
  • Robotics or AV experience
  • Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)
  
  

What We Offer

• $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only)
• Competitive equity grant in a Series B company
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents
• 401(k) matching up to 4%
• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
• All expenses paid company off-sites 2 per year

Why Join Us

• Impact: Own growth at a fast-growing, high-leverage moment for the company.
• Mission: Accelerate the development of the next generation of robotics and embodied AI.
• Team: Work with world?class engineers, designers, and researchers passionate about open?source and developer tools.
• Ownership: Drive initiatives end-to-end, with high autonomy and visibility.