Senior Field Applications Engineer, EPIC - Impinj
Seattle, WA
About the Job
Impinj is a leading RAIN RFID provider and Internet of Things pioneer. We're inventing ways to connect every thing to the Internet — including retail apparel, retail general merchandise, healthcare items, automobile parts, airline baggage, food and much more. With more than 100 billion items connected to date, and multiple Fortune 500 enterprises around the world using our platform, we solve for a better understanding of our world. If it's a thing, we're working to connect it. Join Impinj and help us realize our vision of a boundless IoT— connecting trillions of everyday items to the Internet.
Team Overview
Impinj is seeking a Senior Field Application Engineer to serve as the primary, field-deployed, technical liaison between Impinj and our Americas ecosystem partners. The role will primarily center around providing technical pre-sales, product industrialization, portfolio awareness and roadmap definition for Impinj's RAIN RFID UHF short range communication tag/transponder ICs. There will also be an aspect of enterprise software and sensor convergence technical understanding in support of strategic enterprise customer deployments. Field Application Engineers must have engineering depth and breadth, value customer interaction to include demonstrating excellent listening skills, capture key customer technical requirements, problem-solving and enjoy travel. This role can be based out of Seattle, Dallas, North Carolina or Ohio.
What you will do:
- Work closely with the Impinj Americas Sales team to evangelize and raise awareness of Impinj EPIC products at Impinj ecosystem partners throughout the territory.
- Provide technical support to ecosystem partners industrializing new products based on our RAIN RFID UHF tag ICs to include applying manufacturing best practices, providing onsite technical support regarding RFID wafer, tag and inlay qualification and manufacturing.
- Be the product technical domain specialist for our Americas customer and field sales and primarily liaison into Impinj for our ecosystem partners technical needs.
- Represent new customer requirements and market needs back to Impinj product management and engineering teams.
- Provide in region, real-time initiative-taking and reactive activities for EPIC with label ecosystem (bonder, converter, SBs) partners.
- Work with our GTM team to build and display technology demonstrations or proof of concepts that showcases our RAIN RFID End Point IC's capabilities.
- Develop key technical contacts and relationships with-in the EPIC ecosystem.
- Develop requirements for specific label attach use-cases for custom antenna design and end-user innovative new programs or item categories.
What you will bring:
- 7+ years of experience in RF applications engineering or related electrical engineering fields supporting customers resolving manufacturing issues.
- Relevant understanding of, and industry experience in, high volume. manufacturing processes and machinery used in RF product manufacturing.
- Knowledge of RF principles associated with link budgets, antenna design and propagation, and characteristics of unlicensed spectrums.
- Proven skills in building rapport, customer service, customer empathy, in a meticulous manner with excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation abilities, to effectively represent Impinj and our IC products to technical audiences, proficient in English.
- Demonstrated experience working with customers to understand requirements and translate these into technical solutions.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering; advanced degree, Master's a plus.
- Willingness and ability to travel, 25-50%, including international travel.
Compensation and Benefits:
The benefits listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Impinj and the country where you work.
The typical base pay range for this role across the US is $115,000 - $190,000. Individual base pay depends on various factors such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties, requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Both market wage data and the mid-point of the pay range is reviewed and used as the starting point for all new hire offers. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
At Impinj certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. US based employees have access to healthcare benefits; a 401(k) plan and company match among others.
For a more comprehensive list of US employment benefits, click here.
Why work at Impinj:
Know you're making a difference. Competitive benefits. Support for remote work or a desk with a view. Weekly Q&A sessions with our executive team. Impinj provides an environment that fosters openness and innovation and is developing technology that delivers a positive impact on the world. Collaboration and teamwork are highly valued, and accomplishments are duly celebrated. We have an open paid time-off policy paired with a respect for work/life balance. Our headquarters is located in Seattle with spectacular views of the Olympics, Lake Union, and Mt Baker, which can be enjoyed from our rooftop deck. Our Brazilian site is in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, at "Tecnopuc," a technology park that offers a very nice workplace for the development of groundbreaking technologies. Impinj is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.