Join Viam as a Senior Developer Advocate to engage with developers and showcase innovative robotics projects.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Represent Viam at developer events
- Build creative robotics projects
- Create technical content
- Grow engagement in developer communities
- Gather feedback from developers
Must have
- Experience creating technical content
- Experience as a software engineer
- Experience with Python, Go, C++, or TypeScript
- Ability to explain complex concepts clearly
- Comfort speaking publicly
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with hardware
- Experience with IoT or embedded systems
- Professional robotics experience
Practical constraints
- Comfort traveling for events
- Participation in occasional evening or weekend events
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Developer Advocate at Viam, the individual will engage with developer communities by creating and showcasing innovative robotics projects, while also producing educational content like tutorials and workshops. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, C++, or TypeScript, along with hands-on experience in hardware and IoT, is essential for success. This position is ideal for someone with a strong technical background and a knack for public speaking, particularly suited for those looking to influence the developer landscape in robotics. Viam's focus on community engagement and experimentation highlights its commitment to fostering a collaborative environmen
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 19, 2026. Last confirmed on Viam's careers page November 8, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$127,600).
- Starts above 98% of 291 comparable senior other roles in United States that list Python we track (median $150,000 across 60 companies). See Python salary trends
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Quick facts
- Is the Senior Developer Advocate (San Francisco, CA) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Viam expects some on-site time in San Francisco, California.
- What's the salary range?
- Viam lists $220,000–$250,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Viam is hiring for this position in San Francisco, California.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: C++, Go, Python, TypeScript.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Viam targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Developer Advocate (San Francisco, CA) role at Viam.
From the original posting
About Viam
About the Role
Remote, with travel to events
We’re looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to help more developers discover Viam, understand what’s possible with the platform, and start building with it.
In this role, you’ll 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 ideas—from a robotic arm that sorts objects or a computer-vision-powered machine to a smart device or an experiment with emerging physical AI technology.
Our Developer Advocacy team is currently based in New York and are now expanding our presence on the West Coast. You’ll report to the SVP of Product & Education.
What you’ll do:
- 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.
What you bring:
- 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 $220,000 - 250,000 /year.
Full-time Benefits
Viam’s base salary range for this role is posted above. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.
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