Fleet Systems Engineer: Edge Devices & OTA Rollouts

Specter; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Specter in San Francisco is hiring a Software Engineer to lead the architecture and operation of our fleet management, deployment, and recovery systems for long-range wireless devices.

You will design and implement a unified control plane and data model, ensure real-time visibility, and build resilient OTA update pipelines across production fleets, with a bias toward zero site visits and robust recovery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience writing production code in systems languages (Rust, C/C++, Go, or Python) with a focus on fleet reliability and hardware-level failure modes.
• Hands-on background architecting software for physical devices (embedded, IoT, edge).
• Experience designing unified fleet control planes and data models to reconcile target vs actual device state across large deployments.
• Strong distributed systems instincts: tolerate partial failures, converge state over lossy networks, and implement self-healing logic.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the unified control plane with real-time visibility across devices via long-range wireless links.
• Own data model reconciliation between claimed and actual device states across the stack (TypeScript, Python, NixOS, Rust, C).
• Design real-time execution pathways for device, site, or fleet level management.
• Maintain trustworthiness and convergence during partial outages or offline fleets.

Skills

Rust

C/C++

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Embedded/IoT

Tools

NixOS

Yocto

Buildroot

GitHub Actions

Job description

Specter in San Francisco is hiring a Software Engineer to lead the architecture and operation of our fleet management, deployment, and recovery systems for long-range wireless devices.

You will design and implement a unified control plane and data model, ensure real-time visibility, and build resilient OTA update pipelines across production fleets, with a bias toward zero site visits and robust recovery.