Robotics will have a massive positive impact on the world economy and global human productivity over the coming decade. At Foxglove, we're excited for this future, and we're building powerful open source & commercial tools to accelerate it.
We're an experienced team of independent thinkers, with a passion for creating high quality products. We're looking for self-motivated and fast-learning individuals to join our mission.
About the role
High performance frontend engineering is fundamental to our product and our success as a company. Our product is written in mostly TypeScript and React. We ship both browser and desktop (Electron) apps.
We’re looking for an experienced Frontend Product Engineer who gets excited about solving complex product problems and pushing web technologies to the limit.
- End-to-end ownership over features, working directly with our customers and community to understand requirements
- Partner with our design team to ship polished and delightful experiences
- Expand your knowledge of the robotics and self-driving industries
- Work alongside an experienced team on a cutting edge product
- Comfortable having some of your code open source.
Location
We're a small, remote-only company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.
For this position, we're looking for someone in North American time zones.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years experience in frontend or full stack engineering roles focused on product applications
- Experience with profiling and performance of frontend applications
- Experience building complex React applications (or similar frontend framework)
- Experience or interest in performance-sensitive frontend engineering
- Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Ability to self motivate and thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
Bonus points
- Experience building Electron-based desktop applications
- Experience in 2D or 3D visualization
- Robotics or AV industry experience
What we offer
- For this role we offer $175,000 to $225,000 salary
- Work remotely
- $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 (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
Top Skills
What We Do
At Foxglove, we’re building powerful tools to accelerate robotics development. We believe that robotics will have a massive impact on our daily lives and the world economy over the coming decade, and that better quality software tooling will significantly accelerate this trend. Our team’s years of experience working in the robotics and self-driving industries means we are uniquely positioned to bring the advanced tools built in-house at larger companies to the increasing number of startups in this space, across a wide range of verticals.
Our first product, Foxglove Studio, is an open source visualization and diagnosis platform, specifically designed for working with robotics and sensor data. It allows you to easily inspect sensor inputs such as images, point clouds, and time series data, via a highly customizable 2D & 3D environment.
