Project Engineer, Big Box Retailer Enablement

RADAR•San Diego, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for a hands-on senior technical generalist who can move fluidly across the full stack of a retail deployment — from reader antenna placement and RF environment debugging, to understanding how location fixes propagate through our cloud pipeline. You'll be embedded in the work, not above it. The job is to unblock problems, make calls in the field, and keep the deployment moving forward. When RFID read rates are off, you're the person who figures out why and fixes it. You'll work closely with hardware engineers, firmware developers, backend and cloud engineers, and RADAR’s own infrastructure team and you need to hold a real technical conversation with all of them. You'll be operating across this stack on a daily basis: RFID (UHF Gen2) · Indoor positioning · Reader firmware · RF propagation · MAC / physical layer · Cloud pipelines · Mobile SDKs · Store network / IT

Requirements

You have expertise with RFID systems — UHF Gen2, reader configuration, antenna selection and placement, tag behavior in complex RF environments
You are familiar with physical layer and/or MAC layer fundamentals from wireless comms, base station work, or related RF systems
You are familiar with indoor positioning — for example BLE, Wi-Fi, or sensor fusion at a working level
You have experience in debugging and root cause analysis across hardware/firmware/software boundaries
You have supported field deployments in real environments, not just labs
You can work fluently across HW, FW, embedded, backend, and cloud engineering teams
You are highly organized with exceptional attention to detail, able to maintain quality and thoroughness in environments that move fast
You are a clear and confident communicator, comfortable translating technical details into actionable insights for both engineering teams and non-technical retail stakeholders
You have hands-on experience coordinating project execution, handling competing priorities and ambiguity with composure and rigor

Nice To Haves

You have retail or supply chain environment exposure
You are familiar with cloud telemetry pipelines and observability tooling
You can perform RF measurements — spectrum analyzers, site surveys, signal mapping
You have familiarity with data analysis, algorithm tuning, or signal processing concepts that translate to improving system performance in the field
You are experienced working at a fast-paced startup or high-growth technology company where agility, ownership, and resourcefulness are essential

Responsibilities

Walk a store and diagnose why RFID read rates are off — antenna angle, reader config, interference, multipath, tag placement — and make the call on the fix
Triage location performance issues end-to-end: from physical layer through the cloud pipelines
Translate what you're seeing in the field into precise, actionable bug reports and configuration changes for hardware, firmware, and backend engineers
Work directly with internal partner teams, as well as the retailer's IT, facilities, and operations teams to get things done on the ground — cabling, network access, reader mounting, rollout sequencing.
Identify the real blockers, not the reported ones, and drive them to closure without waiting for perfect information
Own the deployment plan for each store phase: what gets installed, in what order, how it gets validated, and what done looks like
Build the institutional knowledge that makes the second and third store easier than the first — runbooks, failure modes, calibration playbooks
Serve as the translation layer between Radar's full-stack engineering org and the retailer's technical teams