Gain actionable insights from the radio spectrum in real-time with small, cheap and efficient sensors from Distributed Spectrum. Backed by Felicis and Conviction.
About the role
Joining DS means owning major parts of a fast-growing AI research organization, joining a collaborative, talent-dense team with decades of experience in probabilistic ML, accelerated computing, embedded systems, and signal theory, and growing your career in the areas that interest you. You’ll fit in if you want to come to work for the problem itself and don’t want to choose between technical rigor, business value, and real-world impact.
What they're looking for
- Experience integrating hardware and software systems, ideally in embedded or sensor-heavy contexts. You understand what happens between the hardware driver and the application, and you have debugged problems at that boundary
- Comfort with Linux system administration and networking. Our sensors run Linux. Our test infrastructure runs on Linux. You need to be able to configure, debug, and operate these systems without hand-holding
- Ability to write test automation and basic tooling using Python. We are not looking for a software engineer, but we do need someone who can write a test script, analyze a log file, and build tooling to make repetitive work faster
- Physical and logistical competence in the field. You need to be comfortable working outdoors, in variable conditions, carrying and installing equipment, and solving problems without access to a lab bench
- Willingness to travel. Some excursions are day trips to New York Harbor, or NYC-area test sites. Others are multi-day trips to test sites or customer locations
- Clear written communication. Field reports and test results need to be readable by people who were not there
More about this role
DS creates systems that power the next generation of radio spectrum intelligence. We collect radio data from all over the world, train neural networks to decipher it, and run them on the smallest chips we can. We’re solving a new, technically hard problem where nothing from other fields works out of the box, and along the way, we’ve built our own stack from scratch, including entirely new embedding model architectures, custom GPU kernels, and much more.
Joining DS means owning major parts of a fast-growing AI research organization, joining a collaborative, talent-dense team with decades of experience in probabilistic ML, accelerated computing, embedded systems, and signal theory, and growing your career in the areas that interest you. You’ll fit in if you want to come to work for the problem itself and don’t want to choose between technical rigor, business value, and real-world impact.
We work with high ownership and trust.
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