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Our systems can automatically detect and reason about any physical activity captured on camera, from security incidents (e.g. perimeter intrusion, theft, LPR), to safety monitoring (e.g. PPE detection, injured people), to operational efficiency (e.g. material tracking, congestion monitoring). We offer both long range wireless (1km range) and wired sensor variants to suit any deployment.\nOur co-founders Xerxes and Philip are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast approaching world of physical AI and robotics. We are a small, fast growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.\n\nThe Role\n Specter is hiring an Antenna and RF Hardware Design Engineer to own the antenna and RF hardware design that sets the ceiling on our deployment range, capacity, and sectorization geometry. This role takes antenna designs from EM simulation through fabrication, measurement, and production qualification, and supports the broader RF team on PCB-level matching, isolation, and layout decisions.\nResponsibilities:\nAntenna design: Model patch, array, and air-gap antennas in HFSS or CST. Take designs from simulation through fabrication, measurement, and qualification.\n\nRF front-end design: Design matching networks, harmonic filtering, and PA/LNA chains for sub-GHz and Wi-Fi radios.\n\nMulti-radio integration: Integrate Wi-Fi, HaLow, and other radios on shared platforms. Own coexistence and isolation across co-located standards.\n\nPCB-level RF design: Own RF schematic and layout decisions: stack-up, controlled impedance, RF routing, and isolation. Review PCB layouts with the EE team.\n\nMeasurement and bring-up: Characterize designs on VNA, run S-parameter and radiation pattern measurements, and drive bring-up of new RF hardware.\n\nProduction qualification: Define acceptance criteria for RF designs and partner with the test team on qualification methodology.\n\nDesign and IP documentation: Maintain design files, measurement reports, and qualification artifacts.\n\nQualifications:\n3-5 years of RF hardware design experience on production wireless hardware.\n\nStrong RF fundamentals: transmission lines, impedance matching, S-parameters, signal integrity.\n\nEM simulation: HFSS, CST, or equivalent.\n\nHands-on RF measurement: VNA, S-parameter, and pattern or gain measurement.\n\nPCB-level RF design experience: stack-up, controlled impedance, RF routing, isolation.\n\nSub-GHz or ISM band experience (902-928 MHz preferred).\n\nProject ownership and timeline discipline, you flag risks early and deliver without being chased.\n\nNice 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