# Software Engineer - Applied AI 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 (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/4129379f-8d85-4929-affd-1e5fd604b0a9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/specter-software-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

Specter is hiring an applied AI software engineer to own the path from model to product. You'll take detection, tracking, and vision-language models from research prototypes to reliable production systems running across a distributed fleet of edge devices and cloud inference services, then close the loop by measuring how those models actually perform in the field and feeding that signal back into the next iteration.

## What they're looking for

- Experience taking ML models from research code to production systems that real users depend on
- Strong Python skills, with working knowledge of PyTorch and modern inference runtimes (ONNX, TensorRT, or similar)
- Track record building evaluation pipelines and defining metrics for model performance in deployment, including handling distribution shift and unlabeled production data
- Experience with data pipelines and annotation workflows for computer vision or other perception domains
- Comfort with infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, cloud GPU services, and CI/CD for model artifacts
- Familiarity with computer vision (object detection, multi-object tracking, re-identification) or vision-language models

Tags: Engineering