[Hiring] Staff Frontend Engineer, Forward Deployed @Foxglove

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced and highly adaptable Forward-Deployed Engineer to join our team at Foxglove. This role is ideal for a product-minded full-stack engineer who thrives in customer-facing environments and enjoys solving complex technical challenges in robotics and observability.

• Customer Collaboration – Embed deeply with customer teams to understand business goals, domain constraints, and technical requirements.
• Design & Development – Architect and build end-to-end solutions with an experiment-driven, iterative approach (TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL).
• Scoping & Planning – Draft clear scopes of work, timelines, and success metrics for proofs-of-concept through production roll-outs.
• Hands-On Delivery – Code side-by-side with customer engineers, deploying on their cloud or on-prem environments to ensure successful adoption.
• Cross-Functional Alignment – Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success on the same accounts to guarantee seamless experiences and measurable outcomes.
• Product Feedback Loop – Relay frontline insights to Research, Product, and Engineering; your learnings shape our roadmap.
• Internal Enablement – Document best practices, contribute to internal libraries, and mentor future FDEs so the function scales efficiently.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in JavaScript/TypeScript development.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Robotics or Autonomous systems.
• Experience in customer-facing engineering roles, ideally with robotics or autonomy exposure.
• Proven history of rapid prototyping and iterative delivery with external stakeholders.
• Front-end strength in React/TypeScript and back-end experience in Node.js or Python; familiarity with C++ or ROS is a plus.
• Solid grasp of network and cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and database-backed REST APIs.
• Comfortable owning problems end-to-end, learning what’s missing, and communicating technical details to any audience.
• Willingness to travel extensively and work on-site with customers when required.

Requirements

• Experience with multiple database systems.
• Experience designing SDKs, integration libraries, or internal tooling that reduced services cycle time.
• Previous experience in the Autonomous Vehicle Industry.

Benefits

• Work remotely when not onsite at customers.
• $300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace.
• All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year.

Company Description

Robotics will have a massive positive impact on the world economy and global human productivity over the coming decade. At Foxglove, we're excited for this future, and we're building powerful open source and commercial tools to accelerate it.

We're an experienced team of independent thinkers, with a passion for creating high quality products. We're looking for self-motivated and fast-learning individuals to join our mission.