Senior Software Engineer, Operator Tools

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Operator Tools team, you will design and build the desktop applications and interfaces that Elroy’s operators and engineers use every day. This includes:

• Mission planning tools
• Real-time telemetry displays
• Diagnostic interfaces
• Ground support workflows

This is not a pure front-end role; you will collaborate closely with engineers from various disciplines including:

• Embedded systems
• Control systems
• Flight physics
• Power electronics

You will need enough systems intuition to understand the data you’re visualizing and the workflows you’re supporting.

What You'll Work On

• Desktop application development for mission planning, real-time telemetry, and vehicle diagnostics (Qt, Electron, or similar native/hybrid desktop frameworks)
• Visualization and data presentation for complex, time-series, and spatial data from autonomous systems
• Communication interfaces between desktop tools and embedded systems (serial, UDP, custom protocols, MAVLink or similar)
• Ground support tooling: calibration workflows, pre-flight checks, log analysis, and fleet management interfaces
• Collaboration with the simulation infrastructure team to expose cloud batch results in accessible, actionable UI
• Web-based data analysis and visualization tools that connect to cloud databases
• C++ and Python development across the stack; comfort moving between application logic and lower-level interfaces
• Contribution to the team’s overall software architecture and developer experience, particularly for tooling and internal platforms

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development, with experience across desktop application development and web-based tools, ideally both
• Strong C++ and/or Python skills; experience structuring non-trivial desktop applications
• A track record of building UIs that are usable under real-world operational conditions, not just demos
• Ability to work across the stack: from application logic down to protocol parsing or up to data visualization
• Experience integrating applications with real hardware or real-time data sources
• High standards for software architecture, API design, and internal tooling quality

Requirements

• Experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, or other safety-critical domains (bonus)
• Familiarity with embedded software concepts: you don’t need to write firmware, but you should be able to read it, build it, run it, and understand its constraints (bonus)
• Experience with cloud-based simulation or batch processing infrastructure (bonus)
• Exposure to geospatial visualization, 3D rendering, or time-series data at scale (bonus)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced aerospace company
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• 401(k) with company contribution + Roth IRA
• Free daily lunch provided onsite
• Flexible time-off policy
• 3 months of paid parental leave
• Employee assistance program with 24/7 support
• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
• You’ll work with a motivated, kind, and highly skilled team
• You'll help shape and define our company culture and values
• You'll help build and scale a new category of aerospace/logistics technology