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- Debian is a terrible dependency management solution for adding development dependencies to a workspace (e.g. the same sort of thing npm, cargo, and uv are used for).
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 | Onsite (San Francisco) & Remote | Full Time | https://foxglove.dev/
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 | Mostly Onsite - San Francisco | Full Time | https://foxglove.dev/
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)
- Sorry will edit to clarify. All roles are open to remote for experienced (staff-level) candidates.
- Foxglove | Onsite or Remote | Full Time or Contract | https://foxglove.dev/
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.
- It’s a funny post because our team wanted to use Claude Code, but the team plan of Claude doesn’t include Claude Code (unlike the pro plan at a similar price point). Found this out after we purchased it :( We’re not going to ask every engineer to purchase it separately.
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…
- That post says "manufactured", why would you assume "mostly designed"?
Any robotics company that is not thinking about manufacturing from day 1 is not a serious robotics company.
- Yes we're open to it for the right person
- Foxglove | Onsite or Remote | Full Time or Contract | https://foxglove.dev/
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)
- Meta question: How does a HN post like this come to exist with _both_ a link and a body?
Anytime I've submitted with both url + body the body is posted as a comment.
- Definitely! I agree with everything you said.
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 | Onsite / Hybrid | Full Time or Contract | https://foxglove.dev/
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)
- Robotics is definitely getting more accessible! But keep in mind it’s a whole different world from traditional web or desktop software development, so don’t be surprised by the relatively steep learning curve. Keep at it though!
- 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 | Remote (U.S. time zones) | Full Time or Contract | https://foxglove.dev/
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 | Remote (U.S. time zones) | Full Time or Contract | https://foxglove.dev/
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 | Remote (U.S. time zones) | Full Time or Contract | https://foxglove.dev/
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 & 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
https://foxglove.dev/careers