Wildest part about this whole story is Ben Horowitz of A16z's role:
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adrian@foxglove.dev
Prior experience in the autonomous vehicle or robotics industry is a bonus, but not required.
Open roles:
- Forward-Deployed Engineer (UK / Zurich, Switzerland)
- Staff Product Manager, Data Platform (San Francisco)
- Account Executive, Defense & Aerospace (San Francisco or Remote)
Email in profile (please do not email me 5 paragraphs of AI text, just one or two sentences + resume/linkedin is sufficient).
https://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Many individual contributors (ICs) are getting introduced to multi-tasking for the first time. When I was an IC, I was really good at getting into flow state and getting solid work done. When I first started managing, I found it really to adjust to constantly multi-tasking.
After several years of managing, I found the opposite - I became really bad at getting into flow state, my brain had been rewired to constantly context switch every 30 seconds.
Now with AI, we're seeing many managers get back into coding again: "Hey! This fits exactly into my mental model! Delegate 5 agents at once and then keep juggling between their responses!". We're also seeing many ICs feel the opposite - much stress from needing to multi-task and constantly context switch.
I don't know if everyone's brain can be rewired for multi-tasking, but I can tell you that for me it took a couple years to adjust. Everyone is on manager schedule now.
Foxglove is the leading data infrastructure & observability platform for robotics & physical AI.
Prior experience in the autonomous vehicle or robotics industry is a bonus, but not required.
Many open roles:
- Design Engineer
- Applied ML Engineer
- ML Platform Engineer
- Product Manager, Data Platform
Email in profile (please do not email me 5 paragraphs of AI text, just one or two human-written sentences on why you are interested + resume or linkedin is sufficient).
Foxglove is the leading data infrastructure & observability platform for robotics & physical AI.
Prior experience in the autonomous vehicle or robotics industry is a bonus, but not required.
Many open roles:
- Senior Rust Engineer
- Senior ML Engineer
- Senior Frontend Engineer (Visualization, WebGL, WASM)
- Solutions Engineer, Data Infrastructure
- Product Manager, Data + ML
- Head of Product Marketing
- Account Executive
Email in profile.
Foxglove is the leading data infrastructure & observability platform for robotics & physical AI.
Prior experience in the autonomous vehicle or robotics industry is a bonus, but not required.
Many open roles:
- Software Engineers (Visualization Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer)
- ML Engineers
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
- Product Design, Visual Design
- Go To Market
Email in profile.
Link in bio.
Foxglove is the leading observability and data platform for robotics & physical AI, trusted by the world's top companies building for the physical world.
Many open roles:
- Software Engineers (Backend, Frontend, Data, Viz, WebGL/WASM, Rust, SE, FDE)
- Product Manager, Data Platform
- Design
- Marketing
- Account Exec
Email in profile.
Foxglove is the leading observability & data platform for robotics and physical AI. Our software supports the full data lifecycle, from collection, upload, and storage, to analysis and visualization. We're assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all types of robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
Many engineering & product roles:
- Data Engineer
- Rust Engineer
- Frontend / Viz Engineer
- Product Designer
- Visual Designer
GTM roles:
- Solutions Engineer
- Account Executive
Foxglove is the leading observability & data platform for robotics and physical AI. Our software supports the full data lifecycle, from collection, upload, and storage, to analysis and visualization. We're assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all types of robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
Many engineering & product roles:
- Data Engineer
- Rust Engineer
- Visualization Engineer
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
- Product Designer
- Visual Designer
GTM roles:
- Solutions Engineer
- Account Executive
- Demand Gen
- Product Marketing Manager
As far as I can tell, pixi brings the benefits of these types of dependencies, with native support for multiple languages (python and c++ being the big ones).
ROS uses debian packages today (inside a convoluted wrapper), imo it would be much better if it went all in on pixi instead.
Foxglove is the leading observability & data platform for robotics and physical AI. Our software supports the full data lifecycle, from collection, upload, and storage, to analysis and visualization. We're assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all types of robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
* San Francisco, CA (open to remote for candidates with AV/robotics experience) *
- Rust & Data Engineers
- Visualization Engineers
- Product & Visual Design
- Account Executive, Defense
* Seattle, WA (remote) *
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
* UK & Europe (remote) *
- Visualization Engineer
- Solutions Engineer
* Australia/NZ (remote) *
- Senior/Staff Rust Engineer
Foxglove is the leading observability stack for robotics and physical AI. We accelerate robotics development with logging, data management, and multimodal visualization. We're well funded (Series A, ~45 people) and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all types of robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
- Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer (typescript, react, webgl, rust, wasm)
- Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (rust)
- Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (rust, remote - Australia/NZ)
- Forward-Deployed Engineer
- Account Executive
- Solutions Engineer, Robotics
- Dev Relations
Remote friendly: All roles we are open to remote for experienced candidates (staff-level or prior experience at a top AV or robotics company)
Foxglove is observability for robotics and physical AI. We accelerate robotics developers with logging, data management, and multimodal visualization. We're well funded (Series A, ~40 people) and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
Hiring across a number of roles, in San Francisco and some remote.
- Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer (typescript, react, webgl, rust, wasm)
- Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (rust)
- Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (rust, remote - Australia/NZ time zone)
- Senior/Staff Product Engineer (full stack typescript)
- Account Executive
- Forward-Deployed Engineer, Frontend
- Forward-Deployed Engineer, Backend
- Solutions Engineer, Robotics
- Dev Relations, Physical AI
Bonus points if you have prior experience at a top AV or robotics company.
*Remote friendly*: All roles are open to remote for experienced candidates (staff-level or prior experience at a top AV or robotics company)
Customer-facing roles outside of SF are remote but we are looking for candidates in those cities who can travel to customer sites.
Maybe before boasting about how your internal teams use your product, add an option for external companies to pay for it!
Industry leading AI models but basic things like subscription management are unsolved…
Any robotics company that is not thinking about manufacturing from day 1 is not a serious robotics company.
Foxglove is the leading observability stack for robotics and physical AI. We accelerate robotics developers with logging, data management, and multimodal visualization. We're well funded (Series A, ~35 people) and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
** San Francisco, CA **
- ML / Robotics Engineer, Dev Relations (python, c++, rust, ros, lerobot, etc)
- Staff Frontend Engineer (typescript, rust, webgl, wasm)
** Remote / other locations (Seattle, London) **
- Forward Deployed Engineer (typescript, python, plus ideally some c++ or rust experience)
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ROS is still very heavily used in industry and is growing in absolute terms, but most of the newer frameworks and research are learning towards e2e methods.
But even if you don't use ROS, it really helps to have a working knowledge of how it approaches things like pubsub, logging + replay, transforms, etc.
Foxglove is the leading observability stack for robotics and physical AI. We accelerate robotics development through industry-leading logging, cloud dataset management, and visualization/analysis for multimodal data. We're well funded (Series A, ~35 people), and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
Prior experience working in the robotics industry is desired but not mandatory for most roles.
** San Francisco, CA **
- ML / Robotics Engineer, Dev Relations (python, c++, rust, ros, lerobot)
- Principal Research Scientist, Physical AI
** Sunnyvale, CA **
- Staff Software Engineer, Frontend / Visualization (typescript, react, webgl, rust / wasm, etc)
- Buy a small robot kit from Amazon or a local reseller. Yahboom make some good robot toy car kits. Hugging Face have the open source SO-ARM101 that plenty of companies manufacture and sell now. Expect to spend about $250 USD including a Jetson Nano for a good kit, up to $1000 USD if you want some more sensors
- If you can’t afford a real robot, play around with simulators like Isaac Sim and Mujoco
- Check out LeRobot, excellent framework for ML robotics from Hugging Face
- Learn the basics of ROS (pubsub), even if you don’t end up using it, a lot of the industry jargon and design patterns come from ROS so it helps to understand it. Think of ROS like Ruby on Rails, it’s a heavyweight batteries-included framework with lots of opinions.
- ROS does have some nice libraries for manipulation (MoveIt) and navigation (Nav2) using more classical (non-ML) methods
- Leverage AI tools such as ChatGPT and Cursor when you get stuck, it’s a lot faster than Googling when you’re just getting started and don’t even know the right term to search for.
- (Shameless plug) Check out two tools I’m working on: mcap.dev for logging and foxglove.dev for visualization
Foxglove is the leading observability stack for robotics and physical AI. We accelerate robotics development through industry-leading logging, cloud dataset management, and visualization/analysis for multimodal data. We're well funded (Series A, ~35 people), and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a platform for all robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
Prior experience working in the robotics industry is desired but not mandatory for most roles.
** Remote **
- ML / Robotics Engineer, Dev Relations (python, c++, rust, ros, lerobot)
- ML Infrastructure Engineer, Dev Relations (k8s, databricks, iceberg, pytorch, etc)
** Sunnyvale, CA **
- Staff Software Engineer, Frontend / Visualization (typescript, react, webgl, rust / wasm, etc)
** San Francisco, CA **
- Principal Research Scientist, Physical AI (not yet posted, email me)
Foxglove is the leading observability platform for robotics developers. We help robotics and autonomous vehicle companies log, store, and visualize multimodal data. We're well funded (Series A, ~30 people), and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a unified cloud platform for all robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
- Staff Product Designer (visualization, 3d tools)
- Senior/Staff Full Stack Product Engineer (typescript, postgres)
- Staff Frontend Visualization Engineer (webgl, wasm)
- Senior Software Engineer - Rust (australia / new zealand time zone)
- Account Executive (requires experience in selling data infra or dev tools to at least one of: robotics, autonomous vehicles, defense tech, logistics, ag tech, or other robotics)
- Customer Success Engineer (requires previous experience using foxglove, webviz, rviz, etc)
Foxglove is the leading observability platform for robotics developers. We help robotics and autonomous vehicle companies log, store, and visualize multimodal data. We're well funded (Series A, ~30 people), and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a unified cloud platform for all robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
* Must be based in U.S. or Canada for these roles *
- Staff Product Designer
- Staff Visual Designer (apply through the PD role for now, or email me)
- Account Executive (Automotive)
- Account Executive (Defense - must be U.S. citizen)
- Customer Success Engineer
Foxglove is the leading observability platform for robotics developers. We help robotics and autonomous vehicle companies log, store, and visualize multimodal data. We're well funded (Series A, ~30 people), and assembling the most talented team in the industry to build a unified cloud platform for all robots. Sound interesting? Join us!
- Staff Product Designer
- Account Executive (Automotive)
- Account Executive (Defense)
- Customer Success Engineer
- Finance & Operations Lead