Staff Frontend Visualization Engineer

Foxglove (Headquarters: Remote)

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Company: Foxglove is the leading observability platform for robotics developers, helping companies log, store, and visualize multimodal data to build reliable autonomy and scale development. We are a well-funded Series A company (~30 people) building a unified cloud platform for all robots.

Role: We are seeking a Staff Frontend Visualization Engineer to build cutting-edge visualization tools for robotics data.

Responsibilities:
- Develop high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D data visualizations using WebGL, potentially WebAssembly (WASM), and modern frontend technologies (TypeScript, React).
- Design and implement reusable visualization components and libraries.
- Optimize rendering performance for large and complex robotics datasets (point clouds, sensor streams, etc.).
- Collaborate closely with backend engineers, designers, and product managers to integrate visualizations into the platform.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in web graphics and visualization techniques.
- Contribute to the overall architecture and design of the frontend application.

Ideal Candidate:
- Deep expertise in WebGL and graphics programming concepts.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React).
- Experience building complex, interactive data visualizations.
- Understanding of performance optimization techniques for web applications.
- Familiarity with WebAssembly (WASM) is a strong plus.
- Experience with robotics data formats (ROS, Point Clouds, etc.) or 3D libraries (like Three.js) is beneficial.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Benefits: Remote work ($300 monthly budget), comprehensive insurance (US), 4 weeks vacation, company off-sites, competitive equity, and 401(k) matching (US).