Full-Stack Engineer, Forward Deployed
Forward Deployed Engineer at Foxglove works directly with robotics customers in Korea, scoping and building end-to-end full-stack/backend solutions (TypeScript/React, Node.js, Python, Rust, ROS), deploying to cloud, on-prem and air-gapped sites, training teams in Korean and English, and feeding learnings back into the product.
- Compensation
- HK$1.1M–HK$1.4M / yr
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or 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, and comfort deploying and supporting software on networks with no internet access
- Able 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++ is a plus
- Robotics or industrial automation experience, or a past deployed role
Full 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. This job is located in Korea where you will have to travel to be onsite at least 50% of the time and you must be able to speak Korean and English.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.