Architecture

The role

You will work across engineering teams to explore strategic technical directions and drive requirements for new products. You will perform experiments to uncover optimization opportunities and build minimum viable prototypes.

What you will do

• Identify high-leverage technical questions and design experiments to resolve them.
• Survey emerging technologies and translate capabilities into product implications.
• Synthesize requirements for new products and features.
• Build minimum viable prototypes to de-risk assumptions.
• Write up findings to enable decision making by engineering, product, and founders.
• Partner with RF, firmware, ML, and platform teams to hand off validated directions.
• Own ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems end-to-end from scoping to shipping.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years building real things that shipped
• Strong prototyping methodology
• First principles thinking
• Strong engineering fundamentals across software and hardware
• Experimentation instinct
• Self-directing
• Clear technical writing and communication

Nice to have

• at least one of them was a 0-to-1 product where you set the direction, not just executed it

About the company

Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world. They build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents.