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title: 'Reliability Head at Spector.ai'
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# Reliability Head at Spector.ai

- **Company:** Spector.ai
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spector-ai/8a4e1a98-c65e-4f7c-b232-eb0b2252f261

## Job description

## Role Description

Responsible for Asset Reliability activities including Predictive Maintenance (PdM) in Process Industries and Renewable Power with the objectives of safely, efficiently, and effectively monitoring performance, detecting anomalies, predicting equipment health and performing root cause analysis & recommendations through a variety of techniques including physics/engineering, AI/ML and GenAI. Responsible for supporting the development of [Spector.ai](http://Spector.ai)’s reliability & predictive maintenance solution. This role requires an extensive knowledge of a wide variety of equipment types – both rotating and static, experience in applying maintenance reliability engineering and FMEA, and understanding of CBM and PdM techniques to monitor the equipment health and identify failures before they occur. Detail responsibilities include: 

- Leverage industry experience, equipment knowledge and software know-how to support the delivery of world class reliability enhancement & predictive maintenance solution to worldwide clients.
- Primary responsibility is to provide leadership for the maintenance reliability engineering and FMEA, assessing sensors tags and various documents from customers, explaining the equipment ontology and operational behavior to AI/ GenAI team, reviewing the features for model development and provide your feedback to AI/ ML team, reviewing the output from AI/ GenAI models and agents and provide your feedback.
- Lead identification of all failure modes, building equipment components, standard parameters, FMEA and implementing these to identify the root cause of functional failure as part of reliability and Predictive Maintenance of equipment.
- Lead the reliability & predictive maintenance technical discussion with the client and internal team for execution phase with the focus on improving performance, detecting & predicting any issues ahead of time, suggesting root cause, and finally recommending the actions using technologies such as AI/ ML and GenAI Agent.
- Lead and manage a team of talented reliability engineers.

## Qualifications and Skills

- BS in Engineering, preferably Mechanical Engineering
- Proven experience with most of the following analyses - RBM, Asset Criticality, RCA, Condition Based Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance.
- Proven Experience/ Certificate in Vibration Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Power Monitoring, Oil Analysis, and Ultrasound Monitoring preferred.
- Experience in plant maintenance and/or operations is highly desirable.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical and presentation ability

## About Spector

[Spector.ai](http://Spector.ai) is transforming industrial reliability and performance through AI Agentic Twin(TM) platform that help plant operators and engineers diagnose failures & inefficiencies, prevent downtime, and maximize performance. With deep IP in foundational agents, asset and plantspecific knowledge graphs, predictive diagnostics, and performance twin-driven optimization, we serve sectors including oil & gas, chemicals, power & utilities, and manufacturing.

## About Spector.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Spector.ai provides an AI agent-powered platform that streamlines industrial asset health management, enabling predictive maintenance and reliability for heavy-asset industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spectorai) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/spectorai)
- **Founded**: 2023 or 2024 (conflicting reports – Built In and LinkedIn state 2023, CB Insights states 2024) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spectorai) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/spector-aii)
- **Founders**: Rishabh Uppal (Co-Founder & CTO), Sukrit Goel (Co-Founder) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/spector-aii)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Industrial AI, Asset Health Management, Predictive Maintenance
- **Target Customers**: B2B; enterprise-level industrial plants in Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Manufacturing, Renewables, Power, and Infrastructure [spector.ai](https://spector.ai/)
- **Mission**: To maximize plant reliability, performance, and uptime by deploying AI agents that continuously learn from operational events and optimize models in real time [spector.ai](https://spector.ai/)

## Products & Services
- **AI Agent Platform**: Generative AI-based platform that automates predictive maintenance and visual inspection. Covers the full reliability lifecycle – extracting plant data for supervised ML training, failure mode identification, assisting operators with diagnostics, root cause analysis, and delivering actionable recommendations. Type: SaaS/API.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $6.7M (Series A, January 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spectorai) [spector.ai](https://spector.ai/)
- **Notable Investors**: IvyCap Ventures (lead investor), Blume Ventures [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spectorai)
- **Growth Signals**: 162.5% headcount growth year-over-year (now ~14 employees); opened a new Australia & Pacific region office led by Dinesh Singh (Sept 2025); Series A raised in January 2026 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/spector-aii) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spectorai)

## Competitive Advantages
- Uses **generative AI** purpose-built for industrial reliability, differentiating from traditional rule-based or manual methods.
- AI agents continuously learn from new plant events and optimize predictive models in real time without human intervention.
- Covers the **entire reliability lifecycle** – from supervised ML training data extraction to operator diagnostics and root cause analysis – in a single platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling AI capabilities** across more industrial verticals and geographies (e.g., Australia & Pacific).
- **Growing the engineering and data science team**, especially in ML/GenAI and DevOps roles.
- Deepening partnerships with industrial operators to expand the platform’s continuous learning loop.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work environment**: Employees combine remote work with on-site presence in Mountain View, CA or Bengaluru, India [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/spectorai)
- **Fast-growing startup**: 162.5% headcount growth in a year; small team (~14) offers high autonomy and impact.
- **Cutting-edge AI**: Work on applied generative AI for real-world industrial problems (predictive maintenance, reliability).
- **Open engineering roles**: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer (GenAI), DevOps Engineer – as of mid-2025 [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spector-ai)
- **Culture**: AI-first, reliability-focused, collaborative with a mix of technical talent from companies like Google, InteligenAI, and universities like CMU [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/spector-aii)

## Sources
1. [spector.ai - Company home page](https://spector.ai/)
2. [cbinsights.com - Company profile, funding, financials](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spectorai)
3. [builtin.com - Careers, perks, office locations](https://builtin.com/company/spectorai)
4. [linkedin.com - Company page, employee growth, executives](https://www.linkedin.com/company/spector-aii)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Open roles](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spector-ai)

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