Staff Software Engineer, Robotics Fleet
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves designing and developing SDKs, user interfaces, and on-device software for robotics observability, focusing on integrating with robotics frameworks and building reliable, low-resource systems. The engineer will work in a small, fast-paced team to build distributed systems for data collection and transformation, impacting the growth of robotics and AI by providing critical data infrastructure. Responsibilities include multi-cloud architecture and ensuring connectivity in constrained environments, with a focus on customer impact and technical decision-making.
Perks & Benefits
The role is fully remote with a $300 monthly budget for workspace or commuter benefits, offering competitive equity, 100% medical/dental/vision coverage for employees, 401(k) matching, and 4 weeks vacation plus holidays. It provides high autonomy and visibility in a fast-growing company, with opportunities for career growth through ownership of initiatives and collaboration with world-class engineers in a mission-driven, open-source-focused culture. All expenses are covered for company off-sites 1-2 times per year, fostering team bonding and a supportive environment.
Full Job Description
Build the data infrastructure for robots operating in the real world.
Robotics is moving from research labs into production across factories, warehouses, vehicles, and field deployments. When robots fail, behave unexpectedly, or need to be improved, engineers rely on data to understand what actually happened.
At Foxglove, we build the observability, visualization, and data infrastructure that makes that possible. Our tools are used by robotics and autonomous systems teams to ingest, store, query, replay, and analyze massive volumes of multimodal sensor data from live systems and from production fleets.
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.
We’re seeking a highly skilled product and data-oriented Product Engineer with professional experience developing on-device software for developers to provide observability and connectivity. You’ll work with other engineers to design and develop our SDK, user interfaces, on-device software, connectivity and data ingestion systems.
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 1-2× 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.
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