Hardware Mechanical Lead

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, autonomous operations management, and “digital twinning” of physical processes.

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 a hardware mechanical engineering lead to design and develop robust sensor systems, optimize product manufacturing, and build out our hardware team + capabilities.

Potential Responsibilities include:

• Define mechanical system requirements

• Do systems level trades to assess sensor and compute system design with respect to other sub-systems (electronics, RF, thermal, etc)

• Packaging of sensor sub-assemblies including camera, and other multi-modal systems

• Packaging of compute and other electronics, including thermal and structural analysis and simulation

• Packaging electronics and sub-systems

• Developing high scale manufacturing to building, design and executing component and module level test procedures in order to meet environmental and system level design requirements

• Building a test lab and infrastructure to execute test

• Working with vendors for production, assembly and test of system components

Qualifications:

• Have led a mechanical team on early stage products and high volume design

• Experience with high scale production and manufacturing methods

• Experience with sensor design, packaging and integration

• Experience designing and building custom, high power compute + ruggedization for harsh environments

Design tool proficiency:

• Solidworks/CATIA/NX

• ANSYS multiphysics simulation

• Familiarity with ECAD integration