Viam helps companies unlock the power of AI, data and automation in the physical world. We provide a single platform for engineers of all disciplines to solve problems together and build solutions that are fast and future-proof. Viam powers solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, industrial manufacturing, and more. Founded in 2020 by former MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam is headquartered in New York City.
Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
As a Staff Engineer at Viam, you’ll work on some of the most complex and high-impact challenges at the intersection of software and the physical world. This can involve architecting backend services that power our platform, building and productionizing features that run directly on physical robots, or solving data- and performance-intensive problems across teams, such as Motion Planning, Core Services, and Data. Our stack is centered on Go, with additional components in C++ and other languages, running on a range of hardware from embedded edge devices to powerful on-premise workstations.
This is a hybrid role in which you’ll be in the NYC Office 3+ days a week. The team is currently distributed between our New York, NY and Bend, OR.
You'll be:
- Solving new and unique problems in robotics and deploying applications for real world impact
- You’ll help turn lab-prototype solutions into factory-ready products that deliver tangible value for our customers.
- Building and testing on physical robots
- Collaborating closely with teams across motion planning, motion execution, and perception
We're looking for someone who:
- Cares deeply about writing performant, scalable, and maintainable code
- Engineered concurrent and parallel systems to handle high volume data
- Developed backend systems in Go or C++
- Has an affinity for complex, sophisticated problems, and loves solving them with practical solutions
- Is experienced taking projects from problem formulation through implementation and deployment
- Can adapt coding style from prototype to production-grade
- Wants to work with physical hardware
Bonus points if you have:
- experience productionizing code in the context of hardware development
- written motion algorithms for the physical world and understands the constraints of real-world execution
The starting salary for this role is $235,000/year.
Viam’s base salary range for this role is posted above. Your exact offer will vary based on factors, including experience level, skillset, market location, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced, or more senior, than this job description as posted. In these situations, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.
- 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans, commuter benefits
- 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
- Free lunch every day that you’re in the office
- One Medical Membership
- Citi Bike memberships
- Monthly wellness stipend to be used for a variety of fitness-related items like gym memberships, fitness classes, fitness equipment, and more
- Paid parental leave
- Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
- Vision Driven
- Collaborate Openly
- Act Decisively
- Succeed Through Diversity
- Hold Ourselves Accountable
- Lead with Curiosity
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What We Do
Robotics has the potential to do so much good, but progress has been slowed by complicated hardware and software integrations, long development cycles, and people's fear of tripping over a robot on their way to work.
At Viam, we’re addressing these issues by building a novel robotics platform that relies on standardized building blocks rather than custom code to create, configure and control robots quickly and intuitively. We’re empowering engineers - aspiring and experienced - across industries to solve complicated automation problems with our innovative and developer-friendly software tools.
If you are interested in learning more, apply to one of our many open positions. We are hiring!
