Senior Developer Advocate — Robotics & Demos (Remote)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 220,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Vacation & holidays

Free lunch

One Medical Membership

Citi Bike memberships

Wellness stipend

Parental leave

Fertility & abortion travel benefits

Learning budget

Job summary

Viam seeks a Senior Developer Advocate to help developers discover and build with the platform. This role is remote with travel to events, reporting to the SVP of Product & Education and expanding the West Coast presence.

You will create tutorials and demos, present at conferences, build robotics projects, and nurture developer communities while feeding insights back to Product and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Track record of creating high-quality technical content for developers.
• Experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and maintaining production software.
• Hands-on hardware, IoT, embedded systems experience helpful.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly without losing depth.
• Strong understanding of how developers discover and adopt new technologies.
• Comfort speaking publicly and engaging with developer communities.

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.
• Experiment with emerging technologies and developer tools, and identify opportunities for Viam to build or teach.
• Build, assemble, test, and troubleshoot the software and hardware behind demos and projects.
• Bring feedback from developers back to Product and Engineering.

Skills

Technical content creation

Public speaking

Developer engagement

Tools

Python

Go

C++

TypeScript

Job description

Viam seeks a Senior Developer Advocate to help developers discover and build with the platform. This role is remote with travel to events, reporting to the SVP of Product & Education and expanding the West Coast presence.

You will create tutorials and demos, present at conferences, build robotics projects, and nurture developer communities while feeding insights back to Product and Engineering.