--- title: 'Software Engineer - Full Stack at Specter' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-full-stack-specter-san-francisco-pxx4tamke109' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Software Engineer - Full Stack at Specter - **Company:** Specter - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-01-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/2ebe32a2-8917-41cb-ae90-956cbb6efe34 ## 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 Specter is hiring a full stack engineer to build and scale the applications that bring our sensing and perception platform to life. You'll be responsible for developing intuitive, high-performance interfaces and APIs that connect users to a world of real-time physical intelligence, spanning video, sensor data, and alerts across our distributed infrastructure. This role bridges Specter's cloud infrastructure and customer-facing experiences, owning the reliability, performance, and usability of the software surfaces that define how operators interact with the physical world. Responsibilities: - Design and implement scalable full-stack web applications that visualize live sensor and video data. - Build high-performance APIs and data models in PostgreSQL, ensuring low-latency reads and writes for time-series and event data. - Develop rich, reactive dashboards and control interfaces using React, TypeScript, and TanStack Query/Router/Table. - Integrate real-time updates from WebSockets, Kafka streams, or REST APIs into intuitive front-end components. - Collaborate cross-functionally to optimize performance across the edge–cloud pipeline. - Implement secure authentication, role-based access control, and enterprise-grade user management. - Own end-to-end feature development (from schema design to front-end polish) in mission-critical applications. Qualifications: - Deep experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web app patterns (hooks, context, component-driven design). - Strong backend experience with Node.js or Python, and relational database design in PostgreSQL. - Expertise in TanStack (Query, Router, Table) for state management, data synchronization, and UI responsiveness. - Familiarity with WebSockets, GraphQL, or real-time event delivery systems. - Experience building and deploying applications in Docker or Kubernetes environments. - Solid understanding of data modeling, caching, and API performance optimization. - Experience visualizing spatial, temporal, or operational data (e.g., with Mapbox, Recharts, D3). - Interest in physical AI, IoT, or large-scale distributed sensing systems. ## 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. 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