Senior Software Engineer, Pioneer Desktop

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop Pioneer Desktop alongside the Truck team lead. It's an Electron app: our React web app, Pioneer, runs inside a desktop shell that talks to the truck's hardware. The operator drives the camera, records video, reads distance and incline from the crawler controller, codes defects to NASSCO standards, and syncs the inspection to the cloud once the truck has signal.

Trucks are a hard place to run software. They run on hardware we don't choose, from many manufacturers, often with no internet connection. The operator isn't a software person and has a crew waiting. If a recording fails, someone drives back to the manhole.

Working with the Truck team lead, you'll contribute across the desktop runtime: hardware integrations, video recording, offline storage, sync, crash diagnostics, and the release pipeline that gets software updates onto trucks safely.

Who you are

• You have 5+ years building production software, including real time on desktop or hardware-connected applications.
• You've shipped a desktop app (Electron, Tauri, Qt, WPF or native Windows) to users you can't SSH into. Auto-update, code signing and crash reporting are familiar ground.
• Your TypeScript is strong, and you understand the Electron process model: main, renderer, preload and utility processes, and what belongs in each.
• You've talked to hardware: serial protocols, byte framing, checksums, flaky USB and drivers that behave differently on every machine.
• You can debug on Windows. You know your way around file locks, path and locale quirks, Event Viewer, Process Monitor and PowerShell.
• You design for failure. You assume the disk fills up, the network drops, and Windows kills the process halfway through a write.
• You can take a log from a customer you'll never meet and work out what happened.
• You have strong product fundamentals: you understand user needs, weigh tradeoffs, and focus on solving the right problem for operators.
• You explain technical problems in plain language to operators and field supervisors, and you listen when they describe a bug in their own words.
• You follow through. When a truck in another state can't record, you work with the Truck team lead and your teammates to investigate the issue and see the fix through.
• You use AI coding tools every day to optimize your workflow.

Technical skills

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Electron
• React
• Browser media APIs
• ffmpeg
• Understanding of serial communication