Join Specter as a product architect to shape the next generation of AI-driven video sensor products.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
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What you'll build
- Identify technical questions facing the product roadmap
- Survey emerging technologies and translate capabilities into product implications
- Synthesize requirements for new products and features
- Build minimum viable prototypes
- Partner with RF, firmware, ML, and platform teams
Must have
- 3+ years building real things that shipped
- Strong prototyping methodology
- First principles thinking
- Strong engineering fundamentals across software and hardware
- Experimentation instinct
- Clear technical writing and communication
Role intensity
30% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
Our systems can automatically detect and reason about any physical activity captured on camera.
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the product architect at Specter focuses on defining and refining the next generation of products by collaborating with various engineering teams to identify key technical challenges and develop experiments to address them. The position requires a strong foundation in both hardware and software, along with a knack for prototyping and first principles thinking. Ideal candidates have at least three years of experience in product development, particularly in creating innovative solutions from scratch. Specter's small, fast-growing team emphasizes a hands-on approach to tackling complex, cross-disciplinary problems.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Architecture role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Hardware, Software.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Specter targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Architecture role at Specter.
From the original posting
The Role
Specter is hiring a product architect to shape the next generation of our products. You will work across engineering teams to explore strategic technical directions, synthesize and drive the requirements of new products, and perform experiments that uncover optimization opportunities and the motivation to invest resources into them.
Responsibilities:
Identify the highest-leverage technical questions facing the product roadmap, and design experiments that resolve them with the least amount of work.
Survey emerging technologies - sensors, radios, compute, protocols - and translate raw capability into product implications the team can act on.
Synthesize requirements for new products and features by working backwards from customer environments and forwards from what the hardware-software stack makes newly possible.
Build minimum viable prototypes that de-risk the riskiest assumption first, and write up findings clearly enough that engineering, product, and the founders can make decisions from them.
Partner with RF, firmware, ML, and platform teams to hand off validated directions, then stay close enough to course-correct as they are implemented into production.
Own ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems end-to-end: scoping, planning, building, measuring, and deciding what's worth shipping.
Qualifications:
3+ years building real things that shipped - bonus if at least one of them was a 0-to-1 product where you set the direction, not just executed it.
Strong prototyping methodology - you instinctively reach for the minimal experiment that answers the key question, rather than the impressive one.
First principles thinking - comfortable working in domains where the textbook answer doesn't exist yet, and willing to derive from physics, math, or measurement instead of analogy.
Strong engineering fundamentals across software and hardware - you don't need to be world-class in any one stack, but you can read a datasheet, write the script, wire up the bench, interpret and present the results.
Experimentation instinct - you're driven to find answers to important questions and, more importantly, excel at asking the right ones.
Self-directing - you turn an open-ended prompt into a plan, a plan into a result, and a result into a recommendation without needing the loop closed for you.
Clear technical writing and communication - your experimental results change minds because they're honest about what was and wasn't proven.
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