Senior Desktop Engineer — Hardware-Connected & Offline

SewerAI Corporation; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

Unlimited PTO

Travel opportunities

Job summary

SewerAI Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop Pioneer Desktop, an Electron-based app that operates with truck hardware, cameras, and sensors. You’ll ensure reliable video recording, offline storage, and robust cloud synchronization for field teams.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and the web team to streamline operator workflows, handle edge cases, and deliver updates to trucks securely.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Connect Pioneer Desktop to inspection cameras, truck equipment and sensors
• Make video recording reliable and inspection data safe, even without internet access
• Improve cloud sync, app stability and software updates for trucks in the field
• Work with Product, Design and the web team to make operators' workflows simpler
• Help resolve customer issues and visit trucks and hardware vendors to understand how the software is used

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Electron

React

Browser media APIs

ffmpeg

Understanding of serial communication

Database fundamentals

Windows internals and PowerShell

Desktop app testing

AWS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Tools

Playwright for Electron

Vitest

GitHub Actions

Job description

SewerAI Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop Pioneer Desktop, an Electron-based app that operates with truck hardware, cameras, and sensors. You’ll ensure reliable video recording, offline storage, and robust cloud synchronization for field teams.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, and the web team to streamline operator workflows, handle edge cases, and deliver updates to trucks securely.