Senior Developer Advocate (San Francisco, CA)

The role

You will build creative software and hardware projects to show what is possible with the Viam platform. You will turn these projects into technical content and represent Viam at developer events and online communities.

What you will do

• Represent Viam at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other developer events.
• Build creative robotics projects.
• Turn builds and learnings into technical content like tutorials, videos, sample code, workshops, demos, and talks.
• Grow engagement across Viam's Discord and other developer communities.
• Experiment with emerging technologies and developer tools.
• Build, assemble, test, and troubleshoot software and hardware for demos and projects.
• Bring developer feedback back to Product and Engineering.

Required qualifications

• Track record of creating high-quality technical content for developers.
• Experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and maintaining production software.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to independently scope, build, debug, and iterate on software projects.
• Hands-on experience with hardware, IoT, embedded systems, electronics, maker projects, or similar physical systems.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Strong understanding of how developers discover, evaluate, and adopt new technologies.
• Comfort speaking publicly, teaching, appearing on video, and engaging with developer communities.
• Ability to move quickly and experiment often.
• Comfort traveling and participating in occasional evening or weekend events.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python, Go, C++, or TypeScript

Benefits

• Equity grants
• 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans
• Commuter benefits
• 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
• Free lunch every day that you're in the office
• One Medical Membership
• Citi Bike memberships
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Paid parental leave
• Reproductive Health Benefits, including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
• Yearly Learning and Development Budget

About the company

Viam is a robotics engineering platform that lets you configure, control, and manage robots. It is a ~100-person company headquartered in New York City.