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 roleFoxglove 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.
Challenges:
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
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.
What we're looking for8+ 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
Robotics or AV experience
Infrastructure management (IaC/Terraform, k8s, cloud providers, security)
Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents
401k matching up to 4%
4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year
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What We Do
At Foxglove, we’re building powerful tools to accelerate robotics development. We believe that robotics will have a massive impact on our daily lives and the world economy over the coming decade, and that better quality software tooling will significantly accelerate this trend. Our team’s years of experience working in the robotics and self-driving industries means we are uniquely positioned to bring the advanced tools built in-house at larger companies to the increasing number of startups in this space, across a wide range of verticals.
Our first product, Foxglove Studio, is an open source visualization and diagnosis platform, specifically designed for working with robotics and sensor data. It allows you to easily inspect sensor inputs such as images, point clouds, and time series data, via a highly customizable 2D & 3D environment.
