Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed

The role

You will build and deploy Foxglove solutions for robotics teams in Korea. You will work directly with customers to understand their technical needs and own projects end to end to speed up their development on the platform.

What you will do

• Work closely with customer teams in Korean and English to understand goals and technical needs
• Design and build end-to-end solutions in TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL and/or Rust
• Write clear scopes, timelines and success measures
• Code alongside customer engineers and deploy in cloud, on-prem and offline environments
• Install and update software at customer sites with no internet access
• Train customer teams and create docs in Korean and English
• Work with Sales, Solutions Engineering and Customer Success on accounts
• Bring customer learnings back to product, design and engineering
• Document what works and contribute to internal libraries

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Fluent Korean and fluent English, spoken and written
• Experience running technical meetings with customer engineers and turning requests into scoped work
• Track record of fast prototyping and step-by-step delivery with external stakeholders
• Backend experience in Node.js, Python or Rust
• Frontend experience in React/TypeScript
• Docker
• Comfort deploying and supporting software on networks with no internet access
• Ability to 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

Nice to have

• C++
• robotics or industrial automation experience
• a past deployed role

Benefits

• 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

About the company

Foxglove is the data platform for Physical AI. It provides a modular platform to collect, organize, and learn from multimodal data for robotics teams.