Specter

Test Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 189 days ago

Load Testing

About the role

COMPANY BACKGROUND: Specter is creating a software-defined "control plane" for the physical world.

Own system-level and board-level validation strategy from prototype through production
Design and execute mechanical, thermal, environmental, and reliability testing
Develop automated test infrastructure, fixtures, and instrumentation for validation and production
Perform hardware bring-up, characterization, and stress testing to identify system limits
Drive failure analysis and root cause investigation across hardware and system-level issues
Support EVT / DVT / PVT builds and validation bring-up during NPI
Specter is hiring a Test Engineer to design, execute, and scale hardware and system test infrastructure across our sensor and compute platforms, ensuring reliability from prototype through production and deployment.
This allows us to drive down the cost and time of deploying sensors by 10x.
Our co-founders Xerxes https://www.linkedin.com/in/xerxes-libsch/ and Philip https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-clark-883a41126/ are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast approaching world of physical AI and robotics.

2+ years of hardware validation, reliability, or systems test engineering experience for embedded hardware products
Experience performing mechanical, thermal, and environmental testing and interpreting results
Experience conducting structured root cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and system failures
Experience working cross-functionally with EE, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams
Strong experience developing and executing board-level and system-level validation plans
Expert in hardware bring-up and debugging using oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and power analyzers

Experience with reliability and stress testing (thermal cycling, vibration, ingress, long-duration burn-in)

We are a small, fast growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.

We are starting with protecting American businesses by granting them ubiquitous perception over their physical assets.
To do so, we are creating a connected hardware-software ecosystem on top of multi-modal wireless mesh sensing technology.
Our platform will ultimately become the perception engine for a company's physical footprint, enabling real-time perimeter visibility and autonomous operations management.

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