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Foxglove | Onsite (San Francisco) + Remote | Full Time | https://foxglove.dev/

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).

https://foxglove.dev/careers

Foxglove | Onsite (San Francisco) + Remote | Full Time | https://foxglove.dev/

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.

https://foxglove.dev/careers

Foxglove | Onsite (San Francisco) + remote | Full Time | https://foxglove.dev/

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.

https://foxglove.dev/careers

Thanks!

I know this isn’t who’s hiring thread, but we are hiring in AU for low-level data processing and have interesting performance challenges.

Link in bio.

Foxglove | Onsite (San Francisco) + a few remote-friendly roles | Full Time | https://foxglove.dev/

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.

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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!

Many engineering & product roles:

- Data Engineer

- Rust Engineer

- Frontend / Viz Engineer

- Product Designer

- Visual Designer

GTM roles:

- Solutions Engineer

- Account Executive

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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!

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

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

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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)

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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.

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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)

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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)

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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)

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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)

https://foxglove.dev/careers

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

https://foxglove.dev/careers

That's nice, but who is working on porting this to the typescript type checker?

Feel free to apply! It's not out of the question, although we can't sponsor visas.

Foxglove | Remote | 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

- Account Executive (Automotive)

- Account Executive (Defense)

- Customer Success Engineer

- Finance & Operations Lead

https://foxglove.dev/careers

Foxglove founder here. Foxglove is framework agnostic - we have first class ROS support but you can just as easily bring in custom data via Websocket or MCAP files.

https://docs.foxglove.dev/docs/connecting-to-data/frameworks...

I run a robotics dev tools company and we work closely with companies of all sizes across the robotics industry, so have a unique perspective on this.

I would say about half of the industry (read: for-profit robotics startups from early stages through to 10,000s of robots in production) uses ROS, and of those probably 2/3 are on ROS 2 at this point, and the rest are in some stage of migration. ROS 2 solved a lot of problems that didn't need solving, but like it or not ROS 1 is abandonware at this point so almost no one is planning to stick with ROS 1 longer than they have to.

Most companies aren't maintaining their own fork of ROS (other than to submit patches upstream), but a small number of companies on ROS 1 forked it and diverged so significantly that there is no point trying to rebase on ROS 2 - of these GM Cruise was the most notable, although the future of their stack is unknown now that GM canceled the robotaxi project.

The other half of the industry uses some sort of in-house stack built from parts (compare batteries-included frameworks like rails/django to building a backend using libraries like expressjs and sequelize). There is usually some form of pub/sub messaging architecture, because pub/sub is a natural fit for robotics and makes it easier to log and replay/resimulate. Some common things I see are zeromq, vanilla DDS (no ROS), zenoh, or write their own pub/sub (sometimes using shared memory). The messages themselves are often protobuf, flatbuffer, cbor, json, or sometimes just raw c structs.

Building your own stack isn't hard, but its much easier if you have used ROS before and know which concepts you want to reuse, rather than reinventing everything from first principles.

Some newer robotics frameworks are also starting to spring up which is great to see, for example https://github.com/copper-project/copper-rs and https://github.com/dora-rs/dora

There are also frameworks more specifically targeted towards robot learning, for example https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot

If people are just starting out in robotics, or just starting a robotics company, I still recommend ROS despite its warts, it is worth learning because it has had such a big influence on the current ecosystem. There is no "right answer" though, many companies have been successful with each approach.

For private repos, Github runners are slow and overpriced. We switched to buildjet.com runners and have no regrets.