Full-Time

Backend Engineer

Forward Deployed

Posted on 8/26/2025

Foxglove

Foxglove

51-200 employees

Platform visualizing and annotating robotics data

Compensation Overview

$183k - $210k/yr

+ Equity Grants + 401(k) Match

Seattle, WA, USA

Remote

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
Python
React.js
Node.js
SQL
TypeScript
AWS
REST APIs
C/C++
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 4+ years of professional experience using Python, C++, ROS, and Node.js
  • 2+ 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
  • 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
Responsibilities
  • 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with multiple database systems
  • Experience designing SDKs, integration libraries, or internal tooling that reduced services cycle time

Foxglove.dev builds a platform for robotics teams to visualize, annotate, and collaborate on robot data. It lets users view images and 3D point clouds, draw bounding boxes, assign labels, plan movements, and drill into data with plots or raw message views. Recordings can be uploaded to a private data lake for easy storage, search, and analysis. The tool is designed to help teams develop and operate robots faster by providing a single interface for data review and decision making. Compared with others, Foxglove emphasizes experiencing the world as the robot sees it, supports open-source contributions, and combines visualization with data access and collaboration. Its goal is to accelerate robotics development and reduce time to market while improving incident response and data discovery through an accessible platform and community-driven improvements.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$58.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $40M Series B from Bessemer in November 2025 funds data lifecycle expansion.
  • Serves NVIDIA, Amazon across automotive, aerospace, defense sectors.
  • Free Basic Seat tier expands access to QA and safety teams.

What critics are saying

  • NVIDIA Isaac Sim natively integrates 3D visualization, pulling developers away within 12 months.
  • Open-source Foxglove Studio forks by Plotly Dash commoditize features in 24 months.
  • Amazon builds in-house platforms, terminates Foxglove contracts by 2028.

What makes Foxglove unique

  • Foxglove unifies multimodal robotics data visualization and search in one platform.
  • Data Search and Curation launched April 2026 queries events without preprocessing.
  • BYOS enables enterprise data control using customer cloud storage.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Phone/Internet Stipend

Health Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Paid Vacation

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-4%
FinSMEs
Nov 12th, 2025
Foxglove Secures $40M Series B Funding

Foxglove, a San Francisco-based provider of a data and observability platform for Physical AI, raised $40 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Eclipse and Amplify Partners. The funds will be used to enhance visualization and data management capabilities and expand the platform to support the entire data lifecycle. Foxglove serves industries like automotive, aerospace, and consumer robotics, with clients including NVIDIA and Amazon.

VentureBeat
Nov 12th, 2025
Foxglove Raises $40 Million Series B to Power the Future of Physical AI

Foxglove raises $40 million Series B to power the future of Physical AI. Funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners underscores the critical role of data infrastructure and observability in unlocking robotics at scale. Foxglove, the leading data and observability platform for Physical AI, today announced $40 million in Series B financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Eclipse and Amplify Partners. Physical AI is rapidly transforming critical industries such as manufacturing, logistics, transportation, agriculture, construction, aerospace, and defense. Foxglove empowers developers in these industries to collect, analyze, and learn from the vast quantities of multimodal data required to train and deploy robots. Foxglove's platform is trusted by tens of thousands of developers, from early-stage startups to industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Anduril, Wayve, and Dexterity. "Every Physical AI company faces the same challenge: building a flywheel that lets robots capture and learn from vast quantities of data in complex, real-world environments," said Adrian Macneil, CEO of Foxglove. "Our mission is to build that infrastructure so our customers can focus on solving unique, domain-specific problems. This funding allows us to expand our platform to support the complete data lifecycle across development, testing, and operations." "At Bessemer, we believe Physical AI represents the next generational platform shift - as impactful as mobile computing or cloud infrastructure," said Jeremy Levine, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. "Foxglove is the clear category leader building the developer tools and infrastructure stack that every robotics company will rely on. We're proud to partner with Adrian and his team as they accelerate this industry-defining opportunity." A platform purpose-built for Physical AI Physical AI places unique demands on data infrastructure: multimodal sensor data, massive datasets, bandwidth-constrained edge environments, and the need for precise time-synchronized analysis. Foxglove addresses these realities end-to-end: * MCAP: an open-source standard for multimodal logging launched by Foxglove in 2022, widely adopted across the Physical AI ecosystem and included by default with the popular ROS 2 and NVIDIA Isaac frameworks. * Data Platform: storage, search, and query of petabyte-scale robotics data, with flexible deployment options across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. * Visualization: interactive analysis that brings together 3D, video, audio, GNSS, time-series, and other data modalities into a unified workspace for development and debugging. Foxglove will use its Series B funds to deepen its capabilities in visualization and data management, and to expand its platform to support the entire data lifecycle from initial prototype to global deployments, cementing its position as the leading infrastructure platform for Physical AI. About Foxglove Foxglove is building the data and observability platform for Physical AI. From simulated environments to high-stakes production settings, Foxglove provides the observability, data, and developer tools needed to scale autonomy in the real world. Founded in 2021, with alumni from Cruise, Aurora, Amazon Robotics, Stripe, and Coinbase, Foxglove powers hundreds of customers across industries including automotive, aerospace, defense, logistics, agriculture, construction, and consumer robotics. Learn more at foxglove.dev. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251112126106/en/

The Robot Report
Mar 12th, 2024
Foxglove Launches Upgraded Platform With Enhanced Observability

Listen to this articleFoxglove says its updated platform is designed for robotics developers, operators, researchers, and enthusiasts. | Source: Foxglove. Foxglove, a developer of robotics tools, has launched an updated version of its platform. The company says Foxglove 2.0 represents a leap forward for developers seeking an end-to-end system for robotics observability. The company says that its base has grown to over 15,000 monthly active users three years after releasing its initial platform. It designed its new platform for robotics developers, operators, researchers, and enthusiasts

The Robot Report
Aug 16th, 2023
Foxglove Announces Improved Urdf Support

Foxglove announces improved URDF support. By The Robot Report Staff | August 16, 2023Listen to this articleFoxglove now offers improved support for visualizing robot models described by the Unified Robot Description Format (URDF) in the 3D panel. Automatically fetch URDF meshes over a Foxglove WebSocket connection

Foxglove
Oct 12th, 2022
Foxglove's $15M Series A and the Missing Data Stack for Robotics - Foxglove Studio

I’m happy to announce our $15M Series A funding led by Eclipse Ventures.

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