Senior Developer Advocate

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. 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. About the Role Hybrid 3 days/week in NYC office We’re looking for a Senior Developer Advocate to help more developers discover Viam and start building with the platform. The Developer Advocacy team reports to our SVP of Product & Education. You’ll be responsible for growing Viam’s developer community and driving activation on the platform. Your work will include building creative software and hardware projects, turning them into content and experiences developers want to try themselves, and representing Viam across developer communities, events, and online. Projects can involve a range of topics like a robot arm that sorts objects, a computer-vision-powered machine, a smart device, or an experiment with new physical AI technology. Prior professional robotics experience isn’t required, but you should be excited to work hands-on with hardware and physical systems. What you’ll do: 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. Represent Viam at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other developer events through speaking, teaching, and building alongside developers. 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 a