RF Test and Integration Engineer

The role

This person will own the test, qualification, and field deployment infrastructure for RF hardware. They will perform bench characterization, regression coverage, and FCC compliance work, as well as site surveys and deployment execution.

What you will do

• Run VSA/VSG sweeps of Pout, EVM, OBW, ACLR, noise figure, and sensitivity.
• Validate chipset, PA front end, matching, and antenna end to end.
• Build Python test frameworks driving VSA/VSG, VNA, and spectrum analyzer.
• Maintain regression suites for firmware and driver releases.
• Debug across PHY, MAC, driver, firmware, and RF hardware.
• Run site surveys, pre-deploy RF planning, link-budget verification, on-site deployment, and post-deploy debug.
• Capture link-quality data for propagation and coverage planning models.
• Run Part 15 pre-compliance in-lab and coordinate with external test houses.

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of RF test and characterization experience on production wireless hardware.
• Hands-on RF test instrumentation: VSA/VSG, VNA, spectrum analyzer.
• Strong working understanding of modern wireless KPIs: EVM, ACLR, OBW, sensitivity, noise figure, link margin.
• Python automation experience for test orchestration.
• Sub-GHz or ISM band experience.
• 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.

Nice to have

• VSA/VSG (LitePoint IQxel or similar preferred)
• 902–928 MHz preferred
• Manufacturing floor exposure
• 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

About the company

Specter builds video sensors with AI agents to automate the physical world. The team is small and fast growing, with members from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.