- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 18, 2026
- Salary
- $220,000–$250,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Developer Advocate (San Francisco, CA)
Job description
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. We’re inspiring a generation of engineers to solve complicated automation problems with our uniquely powerful suite of software tools. We’re a ~100-person company headquartered in New York City.
Job responsibilities
- Represent Viam at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other developer events through speaking, teaching, and building alongside developers.
- Build creative robotics projects that show developers what’s possible with Viam.
- Turn what you build and learn into technical content, including tutorials, videos, sample code, workshops, demos, and talks.
- Grow engagement across Viam’s 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 what’s working and where to focus next.
Job requirements
- 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.