Software Engineer, New Grad at Foxglove in San Francisco Bay Area

Summary: Foxglove is a company focused on building data infrastructure for robotics and autonomous systems. They are seeking a new graduate software engineer to help create foundational tooling for robotics engineers, working across the full stack from on-device software to cloud systems. Responsibilities: - Integrating with robotics frameworks (such as ROS) and building reliable, low-resource software to run on a wide range of devices - Providing connectivity, observability, and telemetry for devices operating in constrained or field environments - Ingesting massive volumes of sensor data through both batch and realtime pipelines - Building systems for low-latency, random-access playback over large volumes of live or recorded multimodal data - Developing product features to help robotics engineers organize, search over and serve their data for training ML models - Designing and operating distributed systems to collect, transform, and serve observability and analytics data - Working across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure), including deployments in customer cloud accounts Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (recent graduates or graduating in 2026) - Hands-on experience with robotics systems — through internships, research, or significant academic projects (e.g., ROS, autonomous vehicles, embedded systems, robot perception/planning) - Experience writing software in Rust, C++, or TypeScript - Familiarity with building on-device or embedded software with resource constraints - Exposure to distributed systems concepts, cloud infrastructure, or data-intensive applications - Interest in observability, monitoring, and developer tooling - Familiarity with SQL databases and an interest in query engines, big data storage and retrieval, and data intensive systems - Passion for building technical tools where engineers are the primary users - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Eagerness to learn and thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment - A mindset that considers customer impact when making technical decisions Preferred Qualifications: - Published robotics research or contributions to open-source robotics projects - Experience with autonomous vehicle (AV) software stacks - Familiarity with sensor data pipelines (lidar, camera, IMU, etc.) - Experience with Spark/Databricks or large-scale data processing - Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Kubernetes, or cloud provider administration - Experience building REST APIs or user-facing interfaces in React - Interesting personal projects that solved a real problem Required Skills: Robotics systems, ROS, Embedded software, Rust, C++, TypeScript, Distributed systems, Cloud infrastructure, SQL databases, Observability tools, Telemetry, Data-intensive systems, Multi-cloud environments GCP, Multi-cloud environments AWS, Multi-cloud environments Azure Benefits: $300 monthly budget towards commuter benefits or building your personal workspace (remote only), Competitive equity grant in a Series B company, Medical, Dental, Vision, and Term Life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents, 401(k) matching up to 4%, 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break, All expenses paid company off-sites 1-2× per year