Senior Developer Advocate (San Francisco, CA)

About Viam

Founded by Eliot Horowitz co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB Viam is a novel robotics engineering platform that lets you configure control and manage robots intuitively and quickly. Were inspiring a generation of engineers to solve complicated automation problems with our uniquely powerful suite of software tools.

Were a 100-person company headquartered in New York City.

Remote with travel to events

Were looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to help more developers discover Viam understand whats possible with the platform and start building with it. Our Developer Advocacy team is currently based in New York and were expanding our presence on the West Coast. Youll report to the SVP of Product & Education.

In this role youll build creative software and hardware projects turn those projects into content and experiences others can learn from and try themselves and represent Viam across developer communities through events workshops and online engagement.

Projects can span a wide range of ideasfrom a robotic arm that sorts objects or a computer-vision-powered machine to a smart device or an experiment with emerging physical AI technology.

• Represent Viam at conferences meetups hackathons and other developer events through speaking teaching and building alongside developers.
• Build creative robotics projects that show developers whats possible with Viam.
• Turn what you build and learn into technical content including tutorials videos sample code workshops demos and talks.
• Grow engagement across Viams Discord and other developer communities while building your own credibility and presence in the technical communities that matter to our audience.
• Experiment with emerging technologies and developer tools and identify timely opportunities for Viam to build teach or participate.
• Build assemble test and troubleshoot the software and hardware behind demos and projects.
• Bring feedback from developers back to Product and Engineering and use engagement and platform activation to understand whats working and where to focus next.

• A track record of creating high-quality technical content for developers such as tutorials videos sample projects workshops or talks.
• Experience as a software engineer building shipping and maintaining production software used by real users. Experience with Python Go C or TypeScript is especially relevant.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to independently scope build debug and iterate on software projects with limited direction.
• Hands-on experience with hardware IoT embedded systems electronics maker projects or similar physical systems. Professional robotics experience is not required.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly without losing technical depth.
• A strong understanding of how developers discover evaluate and adopt new technologies.
• Comfort speaking publicly teaching appearing on video and engaging directly with developer communities.
• Ability to move quickly experiment often and decide both what is worth building and how to build it.
• Comfort traveling and participating in occasional evening or weekend events.

The salary for this role is between $220000 - 250000 /year.