Software Engineer - Perception

Specter • San Francisco, CA

81d

About The Position

Specter is creating a software-defined 'control plane' for the physical world, starting with protecting American businesses by granting them ubiquitous perception over their physical assets. We are developing a connected hardware-software ecosystem on top of multi-modal wireless mesh sensing technology, which allows us to significantly reduce the cost and time of deploying sensors. Our platform aims to become the perception engine for a company’s physical footprint, enabling real-time perimeter visibility, autonomous operations management, and 'digital twinning' of physical processes. We are a small, fast-growing team with backgrounds from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience training, implementing, and deploying deep-learning based computer vision models in tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, object tracking, etc. in frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorRT, and ONNX
• Experience fine-tuning, implementing, and deploying vision-language models and large language models in frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorRT-LLM, and ONNX
• Experience optimizing model runtimes utilizing techniques such as quantization, pruning, low-rank adaptation, etc.
• Experience building production-grade RAG pipelines, and scaling vector databases in production
• Strong experience in C++/Rust development in embedded systems and knowledge of Linux fundamentals
• Strong knowledge of CUDA fundamentals
• Experience with image/video processing, filtering, and enhancement
• Familiarity with various sensor types such as EO and IR cameras

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Rust or ability to come up the curve quickly

Responsibilities

• Implementing and deploying a variety of deep-learning based vision, vision-language, and large language models to our world-class distributed perception system
• Building and scaling a production-grade data-collection, labelling, and model re-training platform
• Driving the design behind a multimodal software user interface

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees