Design Engineer

Physical AI is moving from research labs into production fleets across industries. As robots scale across the real world, from factories to vehicles, to defense - every workflow from product development to deployment becomes a data problem: what happened, when, on which robot, and why?

At Foxglove, we built the unified data platform for physical AI that developer and engineering teams use to answer those questions. We help teams make vast quantities of robotics data actionable, creating the data flywheel they need to develop, test, train, deploy, and operate robots with confidence.

Design Engineers at Foxglove work at the intersection of design and engineering, transforming complex data and workflows into clear, efficient user experiences. In this role, you’ll partner with cross-functional teams to prototype and build features that improve both the usability and overall capability of our platform. You’ll also help evolve and scale Foxglove’s design system and component library, enabling engineers to rapidly develop new features that are performant, accessible, and high-quality.

• Contribute directly to front-end code and partner with Product Managers and Product Designers to launch new tooling features.

• Deliver advanced data visualization and interaction solutions that support the workflows of ML and autonomy engineers.

• Ship accessible UI components using modern front-end technologies.

• Work closely with customers to gather feedback and drive impactful, user-centered design improvements.

• At least 5 years of experience in tech or startup environments.

• Proficiency in Figma.

• Exceptional visual design skills and a strong understanding of UX/UI principles, with a background in visual or interaction design.

• Excellent front-end development skills—including semantic HTML, modern CSS, JavaScript, and contemporary frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript)—with strong prototyping and implementation abilities.

• Experience maintaining reusable component libraries and refining design details at the code level.

• Strong organizational skills and a passion for clear, thorough documentation.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, especially when working across design and engineering teams.

• Deep familiarity with React.

• Experience designing tools for engineers working in robotics or autonomous vehicles.

• Experience building complex interactive systems or data analytics products.

• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, etc.

• Work on real robotics problems. Robot data is large, messy, multimodal, time-sensitive, and tied to physical-world behavior. The problems we work on span ingestion, indexing, search, visualization, replay, connectivity, collaboration, evaluation, and operations.

• Build tools engineers rely on. Foxglove is used by robotics teams investigating failures, validating changes, reviewing field behavior, curating datasets, and operating production fleets. The work you do helps teams understand what their robots saw, what they did, and why they behaved the way they did.

• High-leverage product surface area. A better query path, visualization workflow, Fleet connection, UI primitive, API, onboarding flow, or customer deployment can change how an entire robotics team works.

• Ownership and autonomy. We’re a small team, and people at Foxglove own meaningful work end-to-end. You’ll have real influence over product direction, technical architecture, customer outcomes, and how we operate as a company.

• Strong peers and high standards. You’ll work with people who care about correctness, performance, craft, product judgment, and building software that technical users trust under pressure.

• A mission grounded in production software. We accelerate robotics and physical AI by building the infrastructure teams use every day to connect to robots, inspect live telemetry, manage multimodal data, replay runs, investigate failures, and improve real systems.

• Competitive equity grant in a Series B company.

• Medical, dental, vision, and term life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents, for U.S. full-time employees.

• 401(k) matching up to 4%, for U.S. full-time employees.

• 4 weeks of vacation, plus holidays and winter break.

• All-expenses-paid company offsites 1–2× per year.

• $300 monthly budget toward commuter benefits or building your personal workspace, depending on role/location.

Foxglove is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from different backgrounds, experiences, and communities, and we’re committed to building an inclusive environment for everyone.

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every nice-to-have listed above. The strongest candidates often bring a mix of relevant experience, curiosity, judgment, and the ability to learn quickly.

Foxglove is the data platform for Physical AI. Built for robotics teams developing real-world systems, Foxglove provides a purpose-built, modular platform to collect, organize, and learn from vast quantities of multimodal data, creating the data flywheel to safely scale from development to distributed fleets. Founded in 2021, Foxglove supports hundreds of customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, logistics, agriculture, construction, and consumer robotics to deploy the next generation of intelligent machines. Learn more at foxglove.dev.