Viam
Provides a software platform for building and managing robotics.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 264
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Eliot Horowitz
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Series C · $30M · 2025
About
Viam is the universal engineering platform designed to unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and data in the physical world. Founded in 2020 by Eliot Horowitz, a former CTO and co-founder of MongoDB, Viam aims to support businesses in creating innovative robotics solutions that enhance operational efficiency and improve everyday life. The company emphasizes collaboration, curiosity, accountability, and diversity as core values that drive its mission. With a strong focus on automating various aspects of industries, Viam provides ready-to-go AI solutions for quick service restaurants, smart industrial manufacturing, and the sports and entertainment sector. Their platform allows users to build smart products rapidly, ensuring that organizations can adapt swiftly to evolving market demands. Recently, Viam became the official AI technology partner of UBS Arena and the New York Islanders and has partnered with organizations like the Billion Oyster Project to support environmental efforts. Viam continues to innovate in the field of AI and automation, defining the future of operations across sectors.
Open positions

Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
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…

Senior Developer Advocate (San Francisco, CA)
Viam, a robotics software platform founded by MongoDB's co-founder, is hiring a Senior Developer Advocate in San Francisco. Day to day: build creative robotics software/hardware demos, turn them into tutorials, videos, talks and workshops, and grow developer communities on Discord and at events.

Senior Product Manager, Platform
Own a core area of Viam's robotics engineering platform as a Senior Product Manager—setting roadmaps, shaping platform architecture decisions with engineering, and improving developer experience across SDKs, APIs, and docs.

Senior Developer Advocate
Build and demo robotics projects using Viam’s platform, create tutorials and talks, and grow the developer community through events and content.

Lead Software Engineer, Data Platform
Lead a team of engineers to build and scale the data and ML infrastructure that powers Viam’s robotics platform, using Go, Python, TensorFlow, and cloud services.

Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Management
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…