Test Engineer

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 a Test Engineer to design, execute, and scale hardware and system test infrastructure across our sensor and compute platforms, ensuring reliability from prototype through production and deployment.

Responsibilities include:

• Own system-level and board-level validation strategy from prototype through production

• Design and execute mechanical, thermal, environmental, and reliability testing

• Develop automated test infrastructure, fixtures, and instrumentation for validation and production

• Perform hardware bring-up, characterization, and stress testing to identify system limits

• Drive failure analysis and root cause investigation across hardware and system-level issues

• Define validation plans and acceptance criteria with electrical, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams

• Support EVT / DVT / PVT builds and validation bring-up during NPI

• Analyze test results and investigate field failures to improve system reliability

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of hardware validation, reliability, or systems test engineering experience for embedded hardware products

• Strong experience developing and executing board-level and system-level validation plans

• Expert in hardware bring-up and debugging using oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and power analyzers

• Experience performing mechanical, thermal, and environmental testing and interpreting results

• Experience conducting structured root cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and system failures

• Experience working cross-functionally with EE, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams

Nice to have:

• Experience with reliability and stress testing (thermal cycling, vibration, ingress, long-duration burn-in)

• Experience developing automated validation systems or manufacturing test infrastructure

• Experience building test fixtures, harnesses, or end-of-line production test systems