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title: 'Founding Recruiter at Specter'
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# Founding Recruiter at Specter

- **Company:** Specter
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/a7abf4aa-755b-4c07-97ca-57e06ae54ad4

## Job description

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

You’ll join our team of relentless builders in bringing frontier AI to the physical economy, where the problems are hard, the data is complex, and the impact is immediate and tangible. Our Founding Recruiter will build the team that builds the LLM for the physical world. This is a hands-on role where you’ll hire exceptional engineers and operators who will solve some of the hardest problems in applied AI.

## Responsibilities

- Own full-cycle recruiting. Run the entire hiring process from initial call to signed offer across Engineering, GTM, Operations, and future teams.
- Run a process that is fast, rigorous, honest, and human. Keep candidates informed and make every interaction reflect the quality of the company we are building.
- Build the sourcing engine that actually finds the right people. You'll develop creative, targeted approaches to reach exceptional candidates for roles that don't have obvious pipelines.
- Design processes that help us hire well. Build structured interview plans, scorecards, and debrief frameworks that produce consistent signal and high-quality decisions.
- Own our recruiting operations. Manage and continuously improve our recruiting stack, including Ashby, sourcing tools, and analytics.
- Raise hiring quality over time. Identify bottlenecks, track the right metrics, and improve our funnel.
- Shape Specter's brand as an employer. Craft job descriptions, recruiting content, and candidate messaging that make the right people want to work here.

## Qualifications

- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a high-growth startup or agency environment.
- Proven success hiring exceptional technical talent, with experience recruiting across multiple functions.
- Excited to build zero to one. You enjoy creating systems, improving processes, and figuring things out without a playbook.
- High bar for candidate quality. You value making the right hire not making a fast hire
- Ability to communicate clearly and intelligently. Understand a complex product, describe it simply, and earn credibility with deeply technical individuals.
- Analytical enough to diagnose problems. Know every aspect of the candidate pipeline, identify patterns, and improve recruiting performance over time.
- Highly organized. Able to manage multiple tasks while keeping leaders, hiring teams, and candidates informed.

## About Specter

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Specter builds and deploys long-range wireless sensing networks with AI-powered real-time alerts and semantic search, creating the perception layer for the physical world.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available (likely US based on website language and job postings)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Physical security, critical infrastructure monitoring, industrial IoT, real-time situational awareness
- Target customers: Enterprise and government – including energy companies, data centers, construction firms, ports, stadiums, industrial facilities, and campuses
- Mission statement: "Creating a Software Defined Physical World" – providing instant awareness through real-time alerts, semantic search, and a map-based view of every event

## Products & Services
- **Specter Platform**: A SaaS-based physical intelligence platform that ingests data from long-range wireless sensors (video, thermal, acoustic) and applies general AI (natural language alerts) to detect events such as unauthorized access, safety hazards, equipment anomalies, fires, spills, and perimeter breaches. Features include semantic search, live and historical event detection, and complete situational awareness dashboards.
- **Long-Range Wireless Sensing Network**: Proprietary hardware and software for rugged, wide-area coverage without trenching – deployed across refineries, deserts, offshore platforms, construction sites, and other harsh environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not publicly available; company is actively hiring (Software Engineer – Systems listing) and has a live product across multiple industry verticals.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Recent website updates as of June 2026; expanding to new use cases (energy, data centers, construction, ports, stadiums); job openings indicate scaling engineering team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Long-range wireless sensing** that eliminates blind spots without trenching or on-site personnel – a differentiator for remote and harsh environments.
- **General AI with natural language alerts** – users set and query alerts in plain English, lowering the barrier for security and operations teams.
- **Multimodal sensing** (video, thermal, acoustic) combined with real-time analytics for high-fidelity event detection (e.g., PPE compliance, spills, equipment theft, person-down incidents).
- Focus on **critical infrastructure** where downtime or security gaps carry high stakes, creating deep vertical-specific moats.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding horizontal deployment across energy, data centers, construction, logistics, and campus security.
- Deepening AI capabilities through real-time semantic search and event detection to replace traditional CCTV monitoring.
- Building a “software-defined physical world” that unifies disparate sensors into a single intelligent layer.

## Why Work Here
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI + IoT systems that monitor real-world infrastructure at scale.
- Engineering culture likely emphasizes distributed systems, computer vision, edge computing, and high-reliability software (based on job description for Software Engineer – Systems).
- Fast-paced startup environment with a clear product-market fit across multiple verticals.
- Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated; job posting does not specify location, but likely offers flexibility.

## Sources
1. [specter.co](https://specter.co/)
2. [specter.co/product](https://specter.co/product)
3. [specter.co/industries](https://specter.co/industries)
4. [specter.co/features](https://specter.co/features)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Software Engineer – Systems](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/fe26a690-7934-46f4-bce2-8d8c5495a0dc)

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