Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

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.

As a Forward-Deployed Engineer, you'll work directly with strategic customers to integrate and extend Foxglove's platform within their environments, while also contributing upstream to our core product. This position offers a unique mix of hands-on development, creative problem-solving, and close collaboration with customer teams. You'll act as a trusted engineering partner, ensuring Foxglove is seamlessly woven into customer workflows and identifying opportunities to drive improvements based on real-world use cases.

• 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.

Location

We’re a small global company with team members primarily in the U.S. and Australia. We maintain Pacific Time hours and hire within ±4 hours of U.S. time zones to ensure effective collaboration.

For this position, we're looking for someone located in Seattle, Washington. 

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of professional experience in full stack 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.

Bonus points

• Experience with multiple database systems
• Experience designing SDKs, integration libraries, or internal tooling that reduced services cycle time.

What we offer

• For this role we offer $175,000 to $230,000 OTE
• Work remotely when not onsite at customers
• $300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace
• Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
• Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents (for US full-time employees only)
• 401k matching (US full time employees only)
• 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
• All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year