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)
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)
- 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)
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)
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!
I am very interested in applying for the F&O Lead role. I will be relocating to the Americas in the coming months, but I am currently based in Europe. Would you consider hiring someone based in Europe for the interim period (2–3 months) before my relocation? I am, of course, flexible and can adjust to your time zone.
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.
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.
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.
Taught my daughter using this method (towel) at 3.5. Took a week or so before she was comfortable starting and stopping but part of that was also learning road awareness.
She used a balance bike for about 12 months before that.
Foxglove is the leading observability platform for robotics developers. We help robotics and autonomous vehicle companies log, ingest, organize, and visualize multimodal data. We're well funded (Series A, ~25 people), with an experienced and fast-moving team. Seeking like-minded people to join us!
- Tech Lead Manager - Frontend / Visualization (U.S. time zones; TypeScript, WebGL, Wasm)
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