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Spectrum Effect

ML-driven RF interference mitigation platform

Radio Frequency Product Manager

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid, Senior
Bachelor's
Bellevue, WA, USA
HybridMust be based in or willing to relocate to the Greater Seattle Area. One to two office days per week.
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Three to seven or more years of experience in product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
  • Ability to translate customer insights and feedback into clear technical requirements and designs.
  • A successful track record of working cross-functionally to deliver features and improvements.
  • Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong organizational, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to represent customers’ needs and interests in conversations with internal stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for key features, from concept and requirements gathering through delivery.
  • Serve as the primary interface with customers to collect, iterate on, and validate requirements.
  • Collaborate with Customer Success to incorporate real-time end-user feedback into product decisions.
  • Work with system engineers to translate customer needs into detailed designs and with development owners to implement those designs into Spectrum-NET.
  • Ensure every feature is grounded in solving key customer needs.
  • Collaborate with systems engineering, software engineering, quality assurance, and operations teams to ensure features are technically sound, feasible, and aligned with business goals.
  • Navigate shifting priorities and high uncertainty, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous situations.
  • Communicate complex RF and software concepts to internal and external stakeholders, including executive audiences.
  • Collaborate with the Vice President of Product to define, sequence, and maintain product roadmaps based on market insights, customer feedback, and internal stakeholder input.
Desired Qualifications
  • Understanding of LTE and 5G NR RF network optimization and troubleshooting processes, and experience with Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson, or Samsung RAN products.
  • Experience with radio propagation planning and radio parameter optimization for cellular networks.
  • Experience analyzing and identifying sources of interference, and troubleshooting and optimizing Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson, or Samsung-based LTE and/or 5G NR networks.
  • Understanding of machine learning techniques and their applications.
  • Working knowledge of 3GPP standards.
  • Experience with at least one of MATLAB or Python, including NumPy and Pandas.
  • Familiarity with software development methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

About the company

Spectrum Effect provides a software platform that helps wireless carriers automatically analyze and mitigate RF interference in 5G NR, LTE, and UMTS networks. Its product, Spectrum-NET, uses machine learning to process data from across equipment and vendors to identify interference sources such as faulty radio gear, cross-border signals, and other RAN issues. The system guides operators on how to fix problems, improving metrics like user throughput and connection reliability while reducing churn. Spectrum Effect differentiates itself with an ML-driven, multi-vendor analytics approach backed by 30 patents and a track record of reducing analysis time (about 75%) and boosting capacity for operators such as Telkomsel. The company’s goal is to lower operators’ operating expenses and optimize capital expenditure by automating complex network analysis and interference mitigation across global mobile networks.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$17.1M

Headquarters

Kirkland, Washington

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Smart Axiata reported 90% plus uplink gains before its 5G launch in March 2026.
  • Spectrum Effect won Fierce Network's 2025 Analytics/Automation award, strengthening buyer credibility.
  • The March 2025 Telkomsel deployment and 2026 expansion show repeatable land-and-expand momentum.

What critics are saying

  • Spectrum Effect still reported only 11-50 employees in 2026, limiting global sales coverage.
  • A 2026 $1.86 million seed round signals weak capital access versus telecom-software rivals.
  • Customer concentration stays dangerous if Telkomsel or Smart Axiata delay renewals after 2026 pilots.

What makes Spectrum Effect unique

  • Spectrum-NET spans 6 million-plus cells globally across multi-vendor LTE, UMTS, and 5G.
  • Thirty-plus patents protect Spectrum Effect's RF interference detection, classification, and auto-mitigation stack.
  • Smart Axiata and Telkomsel validate a specialized, operator-grade workflow competitors still lack.

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Benefits

  • Stock Options
  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

3%
Spectrum Effect
Nov 25th, 2025
MWC Barcelona 2026

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