Specter
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Hiring now
34
+2 posted in 30 days
Momentum
17/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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How Specter hires
Truth index
C 61/100
Ghost roles
65%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Specter scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 34 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 65% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Specter is an American hardware and software startup founded in 2021 that builds connected sensing systems under the tagline Creating a software defined physical world. It designs, manufactures and deploys its own devices, hiring RF systems, mechanical and manufacturing engineers as well as deployment operations staff. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Specter over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
59
Postings analysed
28
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Python46%
Rust21%
C++11%
MATLAB11%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry4%
PyTorch4%
React.js4%
Recharts4%
Databases
PostgreSQL7%
Cloud & platforms
Linux36%
Kubernetes14%
NixOS11%
AWS7%
AI & ML
LLM4%
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59 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$90k
Typical range
$90k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $90k | $90k |
Highest paying role
Electronics Technician
$90k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
54/100
Stable
Open positions
34
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
67 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
20% ▼
Hardware
13% ▼
Finance
13% ▼
HR
13% ▼
DevOps
7% ▼
QA
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added PagerDuty to stack
Oct 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wireshark to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack
Aug 2026
Added Amazon Kinesis to stack
Aug 2026
Added Amazon ECS to stack
Aug 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
35 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 60% engineering $90k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Backend, Industrial Engineering
Jobs
≈ $150k – $316k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Go
Rust
C++
AI Agents
Time Series Forecasting
Physical AI
DevOps
Linux
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
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≈ $149k – $315k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Apache Kafka
Redpanda
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
ONNX
TensorRT
PyTorch
Physical AI
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $147k – $269k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Python
MATLAB
AI Agents
Physical AI
DevOps
Wi-Fi
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≈ $149k – $315k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Rust
TypeScript
C
C++
Embedded C
AI/ML
AI Agents
Physical AI
DevOps
GitHub Actions
NixOS
CI/CD
Self-Healing
Buildkite
DNS
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≈ $124k – $278k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Go
Rust
Bash
AI Agents
Physical AI
DevOps
Terraform
NixOS
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Amazon EKS
IAM
Linux
DNS
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≈ $144k – $315k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
AI Agents
Physical AI
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≈ $124k – $280k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
AI Agents
DevOps
Linux
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≈ $115k – $224k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
Physical AI
DevOps
Wi-Fi
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≈ $126k – $281k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Rust
Bash
AI Agents
Physical AI
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
IAM
Linux
DNS
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≈ $102k – $217k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • San Francisco
Python
Computer Vision
AI Agents
Physical AI
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≈ $105k – $241k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Rust
AI Agents
Physical AI
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≈ $127k – $287k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Rust
C++
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
AI Agents
Physical AI
DevOps
NixOS
RTOS
CI/CD
Linux
Wi-Fi
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