Upon completing his education, Elbaum accepted a faculty position at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln where he co-founded two international recognized labs, the E2 Software Engineering Lab and the Nimbus Robotics Lab. The following year, he collaborated with
Carrick Detweiler for their project "
Co-Aerial Ecologist: Robotic Water Sampling and Sensing in the Wild" project as part of the National Robotics Initiative. In 2015, Elbaum was appointed to the rank of Willa Cather/Charles Bessey Professorship. Elbaum eventually left the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2018 to accept a similar position at the
University of Virginia. During the
COVID-19 pandemic, Elbaum was elected a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in "recognition of his contributions of testing techniques for evolving systems." He was named to the 2022 class of
ACM Fellows, "for contributions to the analysis and testing of evolving systems and robotic systems". ==References==