San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
Company Background Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world. Today, we build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents that answer any question, anywhere in their environments. Our systems can automat…
Skills: Product Architecture, Prototyping, First Principles Thinking, Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$175k–$280k/yr
About Sesame Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer…
Skills: 3D CAD, Tooling Design, Fixture Design, Manufacturing Processes, Injection Molding
Blackstar Computers, Inc.San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
Spend a summer designing and prototyping real mechanical hardware alongside the founding hardware team. What you'll do Contribute to enclosure, structure, and mechanism design for Blackstar's devices. Own a well-scoped p…
Skills: 3D CAD, Tolerancing, Manufacturing Basics, Rapid Prototyping, 3D Printing
Eight SleepSan Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$30/hr–$35/hr
Join the Sleep Fitness Movement At Eight Sleep, we’re on a mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. As the world’s first sleep fitness company, we’re redefining what it means to be well-rested and building …
Skills: Electromechanical Prototyping, Hardware Troubleshooting, Failure Analysis, Multimeter Usage, Oscilloscope Usage
Blackstar Computers, Inc.San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
Spend a summer designing and bringing up real electronics alongside the founding hardware team. What you'll do Contribute to schematic capture and PCB layout for Blackstar's hardware. Own a well-scoped project from desig…
Skills: Schematic Capture, PCB Layout, Altium, KiCad, Board Bring-up
MaintainX (An Autodesk Company)San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
MaintainX is the world's leading AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform, serving 14,000+ customers including Duracell, Shell, Cintas, and Brenntag. We raised $150M in Series D funding led by Bessemer Ventur…
Skills: TypeScript, NodeJS, React, ReactNative, MySQL
Blackstar Computers, Inc.San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
Own the acoustic and audio experience of Blackstar's devices, from transducer selection and enclosure tuning through production validation. What you'll do Design and tune the audio path across speakers, microphones, and …
Skills: Electroacoustics, Transducer Design, Audio Signal Chains, Acoustic Measurement, DSP
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today, Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— lar…
Skills: PCB Layout, Altium, ECAD, Analog Electronics, RF Design
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
Job Title: Strategic Account Manager Reports to: Vice President and General Manager – North America Classification: Exempt Summary: This position maintains and expands relationships with strategically important, na…
Skills: Strategic Account Planning, Sales Forecasting, Business Development, Cross-selling, Contract Negotiation
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$328k–$385k/yr
About the Company: Tools for Humanity (TFH) designs and builds technology behind World. World is building a real human network designed to accelerate people in the age of AI. As bots and autonomous agents reshape the int…
Skills: Product Management, Hardware Strategy, Product Roadmap, Cross-functional Leadership, User Research
MidjourneySan Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
We’re building the world’s first full-body ultrasound CT scanner and the spa experience that brings it to billions. If you think you can help, we want to hear from you. Send us your resume and a brief description of how …
San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world At Bedrock, we’re moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team is composed of industry veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B…
Skills: General Ledger, Revenue Recognition, US GAAP, Financial Statements, Internal Controls
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$29/hr–$35/hr
About the Job Role: Parts Specialist Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite) Employment Type: Full-Time Salary: $29-$35 per Hour About Us Ever is building the future of auto retail. As the first AI-native auto retail platfo…
Skills: Inventory Management, Parts Ordering, Receiving, Allocation & Distribution, Documentation
CoolIT SystemsSan Francisco, California, United States · On-site
ABOUT COOLIT SYSTEMS INC. Founded in Calgary, Alberta in 2001, CoolIT Systems is the leading Direct Liquid Cooling technology provider for data centers, supercomputers, and desktop computers. We design and manufacture so…
Skills: Executive Communication, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Platform Architecture, Negotiation
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
About Us At moss, we build robots that scan trees! But at our core, we’re solving a much bigger problem: enabling autonomous farming. We’re a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, m…
Skills: CAD, FEA, GD&T, Structural Analysis, Rapid Prototyping
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
About Us At moss, we build robots that scan trees! But at our core, we’re solving a much bigger problem: enabling autonomous farming. We’re a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, m…
Skills: PCB Design, Circuit Architecture, Firmware Development, C/C++, Systems Architecture
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
About Us At moss, we build robots that scan trees! But at our core, we’re solving a much bigger problem: enabling autonomous farming. We’re a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, m…
Skills: CAD, FEA, GD&T, Structural Analysis, Rapid Prototyping
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
About Us At moss, we build robots that scan trees! But at our core, we’re solving a much bigger problem: enabling autonomous farming. We’re a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, m…
Skills: PCB Design, Circuit Architecture, Firmware Development, C/C++, Systems Architecture
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$85k–$90k/yr
About the Team You will be a part of a collaborative team responsible for driving and managing sample development from concept through to production, working together with Design, Technical Design, Merchants, and Sourcin…
Skills: 3D Modeling, Rendering, Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator, Photoshop
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$120k–$140k/yr
About Lumafield: Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing. We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and speciali…
Skills: Applied Computer Vision, Machine Learning Model Development, MLOps, Volumetric Data Analysis, Customer Relationship Management
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The Product Architect will shape the next generation of products by exploring strategic technical directions and designing experiments to resolve roadmap questions. They will synthesize requirements for new features and build minimum viable prototypes to de-risk assumptions before handing them off to engineering teams.
Candidates need 3+ years of experience shipping real products, preferably including 0-to-1 product development. Strong fundamentals in both software and hardware engineering, combined with a self-directing approach to experimentation and clear technical communication, are required.
Company Background
Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world.
Today, we build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents that answer any question, anywhere in their environments. Our systems can automatically detect and reason about any physical activity captured on camera, from security incidents (e.g. perimeter intrusion, theft, LPR), to safety monitoring (e.g. PPE detection, injured people), to operational efficiency (e.g. material tracking, congestion monitoring). We offer both long range wireless (1km range) and wired sensor variants to suit any deployment.
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.
The Role
Specter is hiring a product architect to shape the next generation of our products. You will work across engineering teams to explore strategic technical directions, synthesize and drive the requirements of new products, and perform experiments that uncover optimization opportunities and the motivation to invest resources into them.
Responsibilities:
Identify the highest-leverage technical questions facing the product roadmap, and design experiments that resolve them with the least amount of work.
Survey emerging technologies - sensors, radios, compute, protocols - and translate raw capability into product implications the team can act on.
Synthesize requirements for new products and features by working backwards from customer environments and forwards from what the hardware-software stack makes newly possible.
Build minimum viable prototypes that de-risk the riskiest assumption first, and write up findings clearly enough that engineering, product, and the founders can make decisions from them.
Partner with RF, firmware, ML, and platform teams to hand off validated directions, then stay close enough to course-correct as they are implemented into production.
Own ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems end-to-end: scoping, planning, building, measuring, and deciding what's worth shipping.
3+ years building real things that shipped - bonus if at least one of them was a 0-to-1 product where you set the direction, not just executed it.
Strong prototyping methodology - you instinctively reach for the minimal experiment that answers the key question, rather than the impressive one.
First principles thinking - comfortable working in domains where the textbook answer doesn't exist yet, and willing to derive from physics, math, or measurement instead of analogy.
Strong engineering fundamentals across software and hardware - you don't need to be world-class in any one stack, but you can read a datasheet, write the script, wire up the bench, interpret and present the results.
Experimentation instinct - you're driven to find answers to important questions and, more importantly, excel at asking the right ones.
Self-directing - you turn an open-ended prompt into a plan, a plan into a result, and a result into a recommendation without needing the loop closed for you.
Clear technical writing and communication - your experimental results change minds because they're honest about what was and wasn't proven.
Be the reason your fund wins the deal of the decade.
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Offices: Oxford Street, London, England, GB
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