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Spectra is building the AI-native intelligence & coordination layer for RF spectrum, enabling dynamic, efficient, and secure access to communication. They recently raised a seed round from a16z.

Spectra's founders are Millen (a16z engineering fellow, built 150+ satellites at Planet) and Ari (employee #2 at True Anomaly and Chief Engineer of a multi-mission program). They have lived the pain points firsthand: licenses take 18 months and cost hundreds of thousands; commercial bandwidth is at a breaking point with the rise of megaconstellations; and proliferated defense comms are increasingly vulnerable.

Spectra is solving this by building software infrastructure to modernize how spectrum is accessed, managed, and shared. Our infrastructure will shorten time to license, enable dynamic spectrum sharing, and comms resilience against jamming and other threats.

We’re looking for a founding software engineer to help lay the technical foundation of our platform, define our architecture, build core systems, and shape the trajectory of both the product and the company.

The ideal candidate has experience designing and implementing data pipelines and infrastructure. They’ve dealt with messy, fragmented datasets - for example, integrating legacy government systems, reconciling conflicting schemas, and normalizing inconsistent formats across agencies and classification levels. They know how to build scalable ETL/ELT workflows, design data models that support both operational and analytical use cases, and put guardrails in place for security and reliability.

Experience with cloud data warehouses (and especially AWS or Azure GovCloud) is a strong plus, since our stack leverages them to achieve secure accreditation in regulated environments.

Beyond technical skill, we’re looking for someone who wants to take on a ton of responsibility, is comfortable with shifting priorities, and moving fluidly between high-level architecture and hands-on implementation. Equally important, they should be energized by tackling the hard problems of modernizing legacy government systems, helping space communicate with Earth, and building mission-critical infrastructure that endures.

In-person in NYC or SF.
If interested, email millen@spectra.space to learn more.