# Senior Developer Advocate

**Company:** [Viam](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/viam)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Developer Relations
**Salary:** $220k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, C++, TypeScript, Robotics, Hardware, Iot, Embedded Systems, Electronics, Technical Writing, Public Speaking, Developer Communities
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Grows Viam’s developer community by building robotics projects, producing technical content, and engaging developers through events and online channels. The role requires production software experience, hands-on hardware skills, strong communication, and public speaking ability.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Build creative robotics projects that demonstrate what developers can do with Viam.
- Turn projects and learnings 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 collaborative building.
- Grow engagement across Viam’s Discord and other developer communities.
- Build credibility and a presence in relevant technical communities.
- Experiment with emerging technologies and developer tools, identifying opportunities for Viam to build, teach, or participate.
- Build, assemble, test, and troubleshoot the software and hardware behind demos and projects.
- Bring developer feedback to Product and Engineering teams.
- Use engagement and platform activation metrics to evaluate impact and focus future efforts.

## Requirements

- Experience building, shipping, and maintaining production software used by real users.
- Experience with Python, Go, C++, or TypeScript.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to independently scope, build, debug, and iterate on software projects with limited direction.
- Track record of creating high-quality technical content for developers, such as tutorials, videos, sample projects, workshops, or talks.
- Hands-on experience with hardware, IoT, embedded systems, electronics, maker projects, or similar physical systems.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly while maintaining technical depth.
- 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 frequently, and determine what and how to build.
- Willingness to travel and participate in occasional evening or weekend events.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Annual salary of **$220,000–$250,000**.
- Equity grants, health benefits, and additional total rewards.
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- Commuter benefits.
- 25 days of paid vacation and generous holiday observances.
- Free lunch on office days.
- One Medical membership.
- Citi Bike membership.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Paid parental leave.
- Reproductive health benefits, including fertility benefits and abortion access travel benefits.
- Annual learning and development budget.

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