Principal Product Engineer
About The Position
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. The Product Engineering team drives new RFID reader products from concept to market, owning the full introduction lifecycle. We run DfX and reliability reviews, test hardware and firmware to their limits, secure regulatory approvals worldwide, and hand off to manufacturing. Then we stay with the product: tuning factory yield, building and maintaining functional test systems, analyzing customer returns, and qualifying alternate components when supply shifts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, computer engineering or related technical field with 15 years of experience
- Demonstrated experience in product engineering with wireless, RF, and/or network products
- Prior experience with RF, analog, and digital circuits
- Demonstrated proficiency with PLM, database, and data analysis tools
- Experience partnering with manufacturing operations teams and contract manufacturers
- Expertise analyzing circuits and debugging complex circuit problems using equipment such as spectrum analyzer, vector network analyzer, signal generator, and power meter
- Expertise with Spotfire or other statistical analysis tools
- Deep expertise with Python or other scripting tools
- Demonstrated technical leadership with broad organizational impact, able to influence architecture decisions, drive cross-functional alignment, and deliver results through others
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineering and product audiences
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy for RF product engineering across an entire product family, test methodology, yield optimization, and production scaling
- Drive cross‑organization initiatives partnering with hardware, firmware, test, systems, customer support, IT, operations, and executive leadership
- Qualify new product hardware, firmware, and functional test approaches for production
- Serve as the primary technical leader and point-of-contact with contract manufacturers for troubleshooting and resolving production, yield, NPI, RMA, and test issues
- Mentor senior engineers, elevating technical decision‑making, and strengthening engineering leadership across the organization
- Design and lead complex experiments to deepen understanding of product performance and test system operations, resolving yield and product performance issues
- Continuously improve products and processes using statistical process control, pareto analysis, 8D (eight disciplines), trend charts, and histogram analysis
- Travel to Asia once per year to meet with our contract manufacturers or as required based on business need
Benefits
- Competitive benefits
- Support for remote work or a desk with a view
- Weekly Q&A sessions with our executive team
- Open paid time-off policy
- Healthcare benefits
- 401(k) plan and company match
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
