Hardware Test Lead

 

Your job is to build the machine that hunts down our hardware's weaknesses and gets that data in front of the people who can fix them. You will guide what we test, how hard, what's automated, what stays in-house, what goes to a lab—and the culture that grows up around it.

ABOUT SPECTER

Specter’s mission is to help customers 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.

THE ROLE

Establish the hardware test system, team, and culture. Define what good testing looks like here—what tests need running, when, and why; what evidence counts; where the bar sits; and how seriously we treat a failure. Derive reliability and abuse-test requirements from how our products actually get deployed and mistreated, and make sure every campaign's data lands back in design decisions. We're small, so you'll still get your hands dirty establishing the team, facilities, equipment, systems, and culture.

Concretely, here are some of the things you'll work on in the first few months:

- Own DVT and certification — Plan and run DVT campaigns covering environmental, mechanical, and electrical stress, EMC, abuse, HALT, and lifetime reliability. Run pre-compliance EMC in-house; drive FCC, CE (EN/CISPR), and UL submissions through external labs.

- Systematize our qualification — Codify our qualification campaigns: how we decide what testing to run, pass/fail criteria, sample sizes, traceability, and how we document it.

- Reliability and abuse testing — Work out what the field will do to our hardwa...