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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Foxglove'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Foxglove

- **Company:** Foxglove
- **Location:** Hong Kong, China
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/foxglove/6c1c2a4c-aa56-4394-bd83-adbdf58747a7

## Job description

Build the data infrastructure that powers physical AI. Physical AI is moving from research labs into production fleets across industries. As robots scale across the real world, from factories to vehicles, to defense - every workflow from product development to deployment becomes a data problem: what happened, when, on which robot, and why? At Foxglove, we built the unified data platform for physical AI that developer and engineering teams use to answer those questions. We help teams make vast quantities of robotics data actionable, creating the data flywheel they need to develop, test, train, deploy, and operate robots with confidence.

## About the Role

We're looking for an engineer that is fluent in Korean and English, who wants to work directly with customers. You're product-minded, good with customers and keen on robotics. You'll build and deploy Foxglove solutions for robotics teams in Korea, including at sites with no internet access. You'll work with robotics companies in Korea and own projects end to end to speed up their development on the Foxglove platform. You'll learn what holds them back, work with our design and product teams on solutions, build those solutions and help customers adopt them. What you learn goes back to our product team and into the roadmap. We're looking for strong full-stack or backend engineers.

## Key Responsibilities

- Work closely with customer teams, in Korean and English, to understand their goals, constraints and technical needs.
- Design and build end-to-end solutions in small, tested steps (TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL and/or Rust).
- Write clear scopes, timelines and success measures, from proof of concept to production.
- Code alongside customer engineers and deploy in their cloud, on-prem and offline environments.
- Install and update software at customer sites with no internet access, and write the runbooks for it.
- Train customer teams and create docs in Korean and English.
- Work with Sales, Solutions Engineering and Customer Success on the same accounts.
- Bring what you learn from customers back to product, design and engineering.
- Document what works, contribute to internal libraries and help the FDE team support Korean customers.

## What We're Looking For

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Fluent Korean and fluent English, spoken and written.
- You've run technical meetings with customer engineers and turned their requests into scoped work.
- A track record of fast prototyping and step-by-step delivery with external stakeholders.
- Backend experience in Node.js, Python or Rust, and frontend experience in React/TypeScript. C++ is a plus.
- Docker, and comfort deploying and supporting software on networks with no internet access.
- You can judge what to build and make it usable without a designer.
- Able to work on your own with a team 16 to 17 hours behind you.
- Comfortable working on site with customers in Korea when needed.
- Comfortable with up to 50% travel, including to Korea.
- Bonus: robotics or industrial automation experience, or a past deployed role.

## Why join Foxglove

- Work on real robotics problems. Robot data is large, messy, multimodal, time-sensitive, and tied to physical-world behavior. The problems we work on span ingestion, indexing, search, visualization, replay, connectivity, collaboration, evaluation, and operations.
- Build tools engineers rely on. Foxglove is used by robotics teams investigating failures, validating changes, reviewing field behavior, curating datasets, and operating production fleets. The work you do helps teams understand what their robots saw, what they did, and why they behaved the way they did.
- High-leverage product surface area. A better query path, visualization workflow, Fleet connection, UI primitive, API, onboarding flow, or customer deployment can change how an entire robotics team works.
- Ownership and autonomy. We’re a small team, and people at Foxglove own meaningful work end-to-end. You’ll have real influence over product direction, technical architecture, customer outcomes, and how we operate as a company.
- Strong peers and high standards. You’ll work with people who care about correctness, performance, craft, product judgment, and building software that technical users trust under pressure.
- A mission grounded in production software. We accelerate robotics and physical AI by building the infrastructure teams use every day to connect to robots, inspect live telemetry, manage multimodal data, replay runs, investigate failures, and improve real systems.

## What we offer

- Competitive equity grant in a Series B company.
- Medical, dental, vision, and term life insurance coverage at 100% for employees and 75% for dependents, for U.S. full-time employees.
- 401(k) matching up to 4%, for U.S. full-time employees.
- 4 weeks of vacation, plus holidays and winter break.
- All-expenses-paid company offsites 1–2× per year.
- $300 monthly budget toward commuter benefits or building your personal workspace, depending on role/location.

Learn more about how we hire and work [foxglove.dev/careers](https://foxglove.dev/careers)

## Equal opportunity

Foxglove is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from different backgrounds, experiences, and communities, and we’re committed to building an inclusive environment for everyone. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every nice-to-have listed above. The strongest candidates often bring a mix of relevant experience, curiosity, judgment, and the ability to learn quickly.

## About Foxglove

Foxglove is the data platform for Physical AI. Built for robotics teams developing real-world systems, Foxglove provides a purpose-built, modular platform to collect, organize, and learn from vast quantities of multimodal data, creating the data flywheel to safely scale from development to distributed fleets. Founded in 2021, Foxglove supports hundreds of customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, logistics, agriculture, construction, and consumer robotics to deploy the next generation of intelligent machines. Learn more at [foxglove.dev](http://foxglove.dev).

## About Foxglove

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Foxglove is the multimodal data platform for robotics and physical AI, enabling teams to capture, visualize, search, and curate robot data from prototype to production.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Adrian Macneil (CEO) and Roman Shtylman (CTO) – both previously held engineering leadership roles at Cruise and Coinbase.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics observability and data management; software development for autonomous systems.
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise – robotics and physical AI companies building autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial robots, etc.
- **Mission**: “Provide today’s engineers with the world-class observability tooling they need to iterate on their robots and bring them to market faster.” [foxglove.dev/about](https://foxglove.dev/about)

## Products & Services
- **Foxglove Platform**: SaaS / cloud-based platform for visualizing, debugging, and managing multimodal robot data. Supports live streaming from robots (via Fleet), local file uploads, and cloud storage. Offers over 20 out-of-the-box visualization panels, customizable layouts, and an extensible SDK/API/CLI.
- **MCAP**: Open-source log format for fast recording and playback of robot data.
- **Foxglove Fleet**: Securely connect to robots in the field, visualize live data remotely, send commands, and move recordings into the platform.
- **Data Management**: Index data by device, time, and topic; set retention policies; integrate with existing pipelines via UI, API, or CLI.
- **Free Plan**: 3 developer seats, 10 GB cloud storage, 5 connected devices – free forever.
- **Enterprise Features**: SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, SSO/SAML, AES-256 encryption, and data residency controls.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**: Annual revenue estimated at $2.0M (LinkedIn data). Total funding raised: $58.7M across two rounds.
- **Notable Investors**: Bessemer Venture Partners (led $40M Series B), Eclipse Capital, Amplify Partners. Individual investors include Kyle Vogt, Daniel Kan, Dr. Pieter Abbeel, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Charlie Lee, Fred Ehrsam, and others. [foxglove.dev/about](https://foxglove.dev/about)
- **Growth Signals**: 65 employees as of mid-2025 (+91.3% YoY headcount growth). LinkedIn followers grew 43.8% year-over-year. Series B announcement signals strong investor confidence.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for robotics**: Unlike generic observability tools, Foxglove is designed specifically for multimodal robot data (sensors, cameras, lidar, etc.).
- **Open‑source standard (MCAP)**: Drives industry adoption and reduces vendor lock-in.
- **Extensibility**: Custom panels, scripts, converters, and integrations with ROS 1/2, Protobuf, JSON, FlatBuffers.
- **Security & compliance**: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, enterprise-grade encryption.
- **Founding team’s domain expertise**: Built on years of firsthand experience scaling autonomy at Cruise and Coinbase.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Physical AI from prototype to production**: Help robotics teams move faster by providing a single system of record for robot data.
- **Build the robot data flywheel**: Enable teams to capture, organize, analyze, and improve their robots iteratively.
- **Expand enterprise adoption**: Emphasize security, compliance, and integrations to win larger deployments.
- **Grow the open‑source ecosystem**: MCAP and SDKs to attract developers and drive community contributions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: “Experienced team of independent thinkers with a passion for creating high-quality products.” Emphasis on trust and good judgment.
- **Hiring process**: Uses paid work trials to evaluate real project work for essential skills.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated, but operates across 11 countries (including Australia, Canada, Poland, France, Argentina), suggesting flexible/remote-friendly culture.
- **Benefits** (U.S. full-time employees):
  - 4 weeks vacation plus holidays.
  - All-expenses-paid company off‑sites twice a year.
  - Competitive equity in a Series B company.
  - 401(k) matching.
  - Medical, dental, vision, and AD&D insurance at 100% for employees, 75% for dependents.
- **Engineering focus**: Building open‑source and commercial tools to accelerate robotics. Roles include Applied ML, Full‑Stack, ML Platform, Visualization, and Design Engineering.

## Sources
1. [foxglove.dev](https://foxglove.dev/) – Main site, product overview, MCAP, fleet, data management.
2. [foxglove.dev/about](https://foxglove.dev/about) – Founders, investors, funding ($40M Series B), individual investors, mission.
3. [foxglove.dev/careers](https://foxglove.dev/careers) – Benefits, hiring process, work trials, open roles.
4. [foxglove.dev/product](https://foxglove.dev/product) – Product features, free plan, enterprise security, FAQ.
5. [linkedin.com/company/foxglovedev](https://www.linkedin.com/company/foxglovedev) – Employee count (65), revenue ($2.0M), total funding ($58.7M), YoY growth, locations.

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