Specter

Engineering Technician

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago

LinuxAgentic AI

About the role

If you love making real things, this role is built for you.
You'll work with your hands and your head in equal measure: fabricating a bracket to mount hardware on the roof one day, wiring up a test rig the next, then working out how to get a pile of loose electronics enclosed, powered, and running outdoors.
As you find your feet, more of the "here's the goal, figure out how" problems become yours to solve.

Builds and assembly: Put together the computers, server racks, and test rigs the whole team runs on, built well enough that people trust them. Catch the problems that look small now before they cost someone a day later.
Field install support: Get hardware mounted and weatherproofed at our test sites, including the roof, so it keeps working through months of real weather.
Today, we build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents that answer any question, anywhere in their environments.
Our co-founders Xerxes and Philip are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast approaching world of physical AI and robotics.

Handy end to end: Give you a job like running cable from the rack to the roof, and you can plan the route, put together the bill of materials, and finish it as a clean, tidy install.
Fabrication and shop skills: You can make and modify parts: 3D printing, basic machining, welding, or confident work with hand and power tools.
Any hands-on experience with breadboarding, soldering, or crimping harnesses.
A degree, trade training, or a portfolio of personal builds.
Mounting, drilling, fastening, and cable routing come naturally.
Basic computer skills: You can build or set up a computer and find your way around Linux, or you're keen to learn it fast.
Careful and organized: You handle expensive equipment with care, label your work, and leave things tidy for the next person.
Eager to learn: You ask good questions, pick things up quickly, and want to grow into a broader hardware role.

Relevant coursework or projects: A degree, trade training, or a portfolio of personal builds.

Basic computer
Some electronics exposure: Any hands-on experience with breadboarding, soldering, or crimping harnesses.
Comfortable working with your hands: including outdoors and at height, done safely.
Nice to Have
Networking basics: Cabling, switches, and IP addressing.
RF or antennas: Any exposure to RF hardware or antenna work.
Electronics: Setting up PSUs, loads, or solar panels, or reading a basic schematic.

Cabling and networking: Run and terminate the network and power cabling and install the switches the lab depends on, then leave it clean and labeled enough that the next person never has to guess.
We are a small, fast growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.

Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world.
We offer both long range wireless (1km range) and wired sensor variants to suit any deployment.

This listing is sourced directly from Specter's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.