Full-Stack Engineer, Forward Deployed

About this role

Foxglove seeks a Forward-Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic customers, integrating and extending our robotics data platform while contributing to core product development. This full-stack role combines hands-on engineering with customer collaboration, requiring 25-50% travel to deploy solutions across cloud and on-premises environments.

What you'll do

• Embed with customers to understand technical requirements and business goals in robotics contexts
• Design and build end-to-end solutions using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and ROS
• Scope projects, draft timelines, and define success metrics for POCs and production deployments
• Code collaboratively with customer engineers and ensure successful platform adoption
• Relay frontline insights to product and engineering teams to inform roadmap decisions
• Document best practices and mentor future forward-deployed engineers

What they're looking for

• Full-stack development (TypeScript/Node.js, React, Python)
• Robotics or autonomous systems experience
• Cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• REST API and database design
• Customer-facing engineering and rapid prototyping
• ROS and C++ (bonus)
• SDK and integration library design (bonus)
• Multiple database systems (bonus)

Benefits

• $300 monthly budget for commuter benefits or workspace
• Competitive equity grant in Series B company
• Medical, dental, vision, and term life insurance
• 4 weeks vacation plus holidays and winter break
• All-expenses-paid company off-sites 1-2 times yearly
• Opportunity to influence product roadmap through customer insights