Specter

Specter

RF Test and Integration Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 266 days ago
PythonLinuxAgentic AIEmbedded SystemsCypressTest AutomationWireshark

About the role

  • The role sits at the intersection of RF test, embedded firmware, and field deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Integration testing across the radio chain: Validate chipset, PA front end, matching, and antenna end to end, on the bench and over the air.
  • Test automation and infrastructure: Build Python test frameworks driving VSA/VSG, VNA, and spectrum analyzer. Maintain regression suites for firmware and driver releases.
  • Pre-compliance and FCC support: Run Part 15 pre-compliance in-lab, coordinate with external test houses, and debug compliance failures.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of RF test and characterization experience on production wireless hardware.
  • Strong working understanding of modern wireless KPIs: EVM, ACLR, OBW, sensitivity, noise figure, link margin, and what they mean for system performance.
  • Python automation experience for test orchestration. You've built test frameworks, not one-off scripts.
  • Comfortable in Linux: command line, packet capture (tshark/tcpdump), reading debugfs and driver logs.
  • Field deployment experience: site surveys, RF planning against real propagation, path loss model validation.
  • Project ownership and timeline discipline, you flag risks early and deliver without being chased.

Nice to have

  • 802.11 standards knowledge, ideally including 802.11ah / Wi-Fi HaLow.
  • Manufacturing floor exposure - understands the gap between bench-works and works-at-rate.
  • Experience with PA characterization (linearity, efficiency, EVM tradeoffs).
  • FCC Part 15 pre-compliance or full certification experience.
  • Familiarity with Morse Micro, Broadcom/Cypress, or similar Wi-Fi chipset ecosystems.
  • VSA/VSG (LitePoint IQxel or similar preferred), VNA, spectrum analyzer.
  • Python automation experience for test orchestration.
  • You've built test frameworks, not one-off scripts.

Skills

  • Maintain regression suites for firmware and driver releases.

Benefits

  • Field data and propagation modeling: Capture link-quality data from deployed sites and feed it into our propagation and coverage planning models.
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