
Viam provides a comprehensive platform designed to unlock AI, data, and automation capabilities within the physical world. This platform enables engineers across various disciplines to collaborate on building fast, future-proof solutions for industries such as robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, and industrial manufacturing. Founded by Eliot Horowitz, co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB, Viam is headquartered in New York City. The company emphasizes an open architecture and empowers users to deploy AI in real-world settings with speed and flexibility.

Viam provides a comprehensive platform designed to unlock AI, data, and automation capabilities within the physical world. This platform enables engineers across various disciplines to collaborate on building fast, future-proof solutions for industries such as robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, and industrial manufacturing. Founded by Eliot Horowitz, co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB, Viam is headquartered in New York City. The company emphasizes an open architecture and empowers users to deploy AI in real-world settings with speed and flexibility.
Founded: 2020
Headquarters: New York City
Founder & CEO: Eliot Horowitz (MongoDB co-founder, former CTO)
What they build: Engineering platform for robotics, automation, AI, and fleet management for physical-world machines
Total funding (reported): USD 117,000,000
Latest round: Series C: $30M (Mar 3, 2025) led by Union Square Ventures
Bringing AI, data, and software engineering practices to physical machines and robotics to simplify integration, monitoring, updating, and scaling of automated systems.
2020
Software Development
$12M
Seed round reported in June 2021.
$30M
Series A announced Feb 1, 2022; participation from returning investors including Union Square Ventures and Battery Ventures.
$45M
Series B announced Mar 26, 2024; participation included continuing investors Union Square Ventures and Battery Ventures.
$30M
Series C announced Mar 3, 2025; participation included Battery Ventures and Neurone and other existing investors.
“Backed by multiple institutional venture firms, including Union Square Ventures, Tiger Global, and Battery Ventures”
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Viam helps companies unlock the power of AI, data and automation in the physical world. We provide a single platform for engineers of all disciplines to solve problems together and build solutions that are fast and future-proof. Viam powers solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, industrial manufacturing, and more. Founded in 2020 by former MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam is headquartered in New York City.
Senior Software Engineer, Core Services & Resilience (Backend Full Stack) NYC-based team (Hybrid 3+ days a week in office)
Viam is a full-service engineering platform that allows developers through enterprises the ability to configure and control physical devices in a data-driven and intuitive way. Whether you're managing one robot or physical device (sensors, cameras, IoT) in a lab or a fleet of thousands in the field, Viam enables seamless cloud-based control and insights.
The Core Services & Resilience team builds the cloud systems and backend services that allow our users the ability to configure, monitor, and control physical robots or devices, at scale. We are looking for a Senior or Staff Engineer to weigh in on architectural decisions, build business critical features and provide mentorship to more junior engineers. Some past projects include: implementing triggers, adding features to our billing product, splitting out a "macroservice" from our app monolith, and implementing a shared background job queue.
Tech Stack: Our work is primarily backend-focused, leveraging Golang, MongoDB, and Linux running in GCP. We also build simple yet meaningful frontend experiences with Svelte and Vue.
Why this role might excite you:
Some areas you'll help drive forward:
We're looking for someone who:
The starting salary for this role is between $180-220K/year.
Benefits: Viam's base salary range for this role is posted above. Your exact offer will vary based on factors, including experience level, skillset, market location, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced, or more senior, than this job description as posted. In these situations, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.
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