# Architecture at Specter

- Company: Specter
- What the company does: Search 55M companies, 550M people and every funding or M&A event in real time—surface hidden startups, size markets and act first. Backed by Entrepreneur First.
- Company website: https://tryspecter.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/8d9a22f7-f07a-4800-b1a7-ded84514318b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/specter-architecture/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering