Mechanical 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 mechanical engineer to design and develop robust sensor systems, optimize product manufacturing, and assist with build/manufacturing programs.

Potential Responsibilities include:

• Define mechanical system requirements

• Design sheet metal, CNC plastics/metal, injection molded plastic, and 3D printed structural components

• Create detailed GD&T drawings for vendors

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

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

• Design custom battery solutions

• Develop test criteria and conduct testing with both in-house equipment and external partners

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

• Assist with field deployments and remote debugging support

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of mechanical product design experience

• Familiarity with electronics packaging considerations and requirements

• Experience shipping high volume product, and working with contract manufacturers

• Working experience with processes/technologies such as injection molding, casting, opto-mechanical design and lithium batteries

• Hands-on experience building computers and servers preferred

• Formula/Baja SAE or other project based team experience preferred

Design tool proficiency:

• Solidworks/CATIA/NX

• NSYS multiphysics simulation

• Familiarity with ECAD integration