Systems Integration and Test Lead

About Us

We are a stealth-mode deep-tech startup dedicated to connecting the world’s assets so they can be actively tracked, managed, and protected. We are building a device similar to an industrial-strength Air Tag that communicates directly with satellites, peers, and ground infrastructure. We are building a device similar to an industrial-strength Air Tag that communicates directly with satellites, peers, and ground infrastructure. To do this, we’ve invested heavily in our own custom silicon and waveform.

By vertically integrating from custom silicon and novel waveforms up through the application layer, we have built a direct-to-satellite IoT network that communicates at a fraction of current costs and power envelopes, and with receiver sensitivity and battery life that existing architectures cannot match.

Our custom ASIC is returning from fabrication. Our commercial protocol stack spans a novel MAC and PHY architecture, multi-hop mesh routing, and location tracking. The tech is proven, the TAM is gargantuan, and the founders have signed LOIs and conditional orders worth several billion dollars in ARR across applications ranging from supply chain logistics to laptop and cattle tracking.

Joining our team means stepping into a small, high-caliber team united by a clear mission. We operate on two core values: high trust and high performance. We believe that small, focused groups of engineers, unburdened by the bureaucracy of large tech companies, can create transformative technology at a breakneck pace. On our team, you'll have real ownership, support when you hit hard problems, and a meaningful role in building something genuinely new at the silicon and protocol layer.

Onsite in San Diego (with occasional WFH flexibility)

Full-time

Through integration and testing excellence, you will ensure the full system actually works, from PHY layer behavior through cloud protocol logic, across the endpoint, infrastructure, and network boundaries. This role requires someone who understands the full stack well enough to design tests that look for the right things in the right places. We are building a simulation-first development culture.

You will define what that environment looks

like.

This is an individual contributor at the current stage with a clear path towards team leadership and building an organization.

• End-to-end system test processes in an AI-forward environment: defining what needs to be tested and at what fidelity, across the full PHY-to-cloud stack.
• Simulation-to-hardware validation: owning the process of confirming that simulation results are credible against real hardware behavior
• AI-augmented test generation: using AI tooling to expand scenario coverage and find edge cases that human-written test scripts miss
• Sign-off process: defining what done looks like for each feature before it transitions from simulation to hardware
• Test tooling and automation: building the infrastructure that makes test execution fast, repeatable, and trustworthy

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Eng"ineering, or equivalent
• Wireless protocol system experience — has designed and executed system-level tests for a real wireless product across multiple protocol layers
• Strong simulation methodology — understands what makes a simulation environment credible for protocol validation; has owned that credibility question before
• Full stack systems thinking — can hold the PHY layer and the application layer in mind simultaneously and design tests that find failures at the boundary between them
• Strong scripting experience
• Python and/or C fluency for test infrastructure development

• Wireless system…