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Foxglove is a data platform for Physical AI, helping robotics teams across automotive, aerospace, defense, logistics, and other industries develop, test, deploy, and operate robots at scale. The company provides tools to make vast quantities of robotics data actionable—enabling teams to understand what happened, when, on which robot, and why.
You will be a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) based in Korea, working directly with robotics customers to build and deploy Foxglove solutions end-to-end. This is a hybrid role combining backend engineering, customer collaboration, and on-site deployment work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with Korean robotics companies to understand their technical goals, constraints, and data challenges
- Design and build full-stack solutions using TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, ROS, SQL, and/or Rust
- Write clear project scopes, timelines, and success criteria from proof-of-concept through production
- Deploy solutions in customer cloud, on-premises, and offline (no-internet) environments
- Install, configure, and update software at customer sites without internet access; write operational runbooks
- Train customer teams and create documentation in both Korean and English
- Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success on shared accounts
- Feed customer learnings back to Foxglove's product, design, and engineering teams
- Build internal libraries and documentation to support the FDE team serving Korean customers
You will work autonomously with a team 16–17 hours ahead of you in the US, and travel to customer sites in Korea as needed (up to 50% travel).
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Fluent Korean and fluent English, both spoken and written
- Proven experience running technical meetings with customer engineers and translating their requests into scoped work
- Track record of rapid prototyping and step-by-step delivery with external stakeholders
- Backend experience in Node.js, Python, or Rust; frontend experience in React/TypeScript
- Proficiency with Docker and experience deploying/supporting software on networks without internet access
- Ability to make sound product judgments and create usable solutions with minimal design support
- Comfortable working independently across significant time zones
- Willing to work on-site with customers in Korea when needed
- Comfortable with up to 50% travel, including to Korea
- Bonus: robotics, industrial automation experience, or prior forward-deployed/customer-facing engineering role; C++ experience
