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
We're looking for a new grad software engineer to join our team building the infrastructure that powers robotics and autonomous systems at scale. You'll work across the full stack — from on-device software running on robots in the field to cloud systems ingesting and serving massive volumes of sensor data. This role is ideal for someone who's excited about robotics and wants to build the foundational tooling that robotics engineers rely on every day.
Key Responsibilities
- Integrating with robotics frameworks (such as ROS) and building reliable, low-resource software to run on a wide range of devices
- Providing connectivity, observability, and telemetry for devices operating in constrained or field environments
- Ingesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime pipelines
- Building systems for low-latency, random-access playback over large volumes of live or recorded multimodal data
- Developing product features to help robotics engineers organize, search over and serve their data for training ML models.
- Designing and operating distributed systems to collect, transform, and serve observability and analytics data
- Working across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure), including deployments in customer cloud accounts
Our Technical Stack
- Rust
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- GCP, Azure and AWS
- Agentic coding tools (Claude Code / Cursor)
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (recent graduates or graduating in 2026)
- Hands-on experience with robotics systems — through internships, research, or significant academic projects (e.g., ROS, autonomous vehicles, embedded systems, robot perception/planning)
- Experience writing software in Rust, C++, or TypeScript
- Familiarity with building on-device or embedded software with resource constraints
- Exposure to distributed systems concepts, cloud infrastructure, or data-intensive applications
- Interest in observability, monitoring, and developer tooling
- Familiarity with SQL databases and an interest in query engines, big data storage and retrieval, and data intensive systems
- Passion for building technical tools where engineers are the primary users
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Eagerness to learn and thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
- A mindset that considers customer impact when making technical decisions
Bonus Points
- Published robotics research or contributions to open-source robotics projects
- Experience with autonomous vehicle (AV) software stacks
- Familiarity with sensor data pipelines (lidar, camera, IMU, etc.)
- Experience with Spark/Databricks or large-scale data processing
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Kubernetes, or cloud provider administration
- Experience building REST APIs or user-facing interfaces in React
- Interesting personal projects that solved a real problem
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.
Compensation Range: $150K - $210K
