Electrical Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

Company Background:

Specter is creating a software-defined “control plane” for the physical world. 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. This allows us to drive down the cost and time of deploying sensors by 10x. Our platform will ultimately become the perception engine for a company’s physical footprint, enabling real-time perimeter visibility and autonomous operations management.

Our co-founders Xerxes and Philip are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast approaching world of physical AI and robotics. We are a small, fast growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.

Role + Responsibilities:

Specter is hiring an electrical engineer to design and develop robust sensor and compute systems, optimize product manufacturing, and assist with build/manufacturing programs.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, firmware, and systems teams to define system-level requirements

• Own end-to-end design of embedded controllers, including schematics, layout, and hardware validation

• Perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting on electrical and system-level issues

• Support in-field hardware deployments through remote diagnostics and failure analysis

• Lead research and prototyping of new technologies

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of electronic hardware design experience

• Experience working cross-functionally to define system architecture

• Experience shipping high volume product (automotive and/or aerospace preferred) and working with contract manufacturers

• Experience with board-level debugging, oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, etc.

• Working knowledge of embedded systems, including microcontrollers/processors, sensors, and communication protocols (I2C, SPI, Ethernet, etc.)

Preferred Skills:

• Experience managing hardware development through the full product lifecycle

• Working knowledge of power electronics design and battery management systems

• Experience working with and evaluating contract manufacturers

• Familiarity with scripting or firmware for hardware test automation (e.g., Python, embedded C)

• Experience with AC/DC conversion and 120V AC systems (preferred, not required)

Design Tool Proficiency:

• Altium Designer (required)

• SPICE simulation tools (LTspice, QSpice, or equivalent)

• Python (preferred for scripting, automation, or data analysis)