Impinj

Principal Product Engineer

Impinj • $185K — $277K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field with 15 years of experience
  • Proven experience in product engineering for wireless, RF, and/or network products
  • Prior experience with RF, analog, and digital circuits
  • Proficiency with PLM, database, and data analysis tools
  • Experience working with manufacturing operations and contract manufacturers
  • Expertise in circuit analysis and debugging with specialized equipment
  • Proficient in Python or other scripting tools
  • Strong technical leadership skills with significant organizational impact

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy for RF product engineering across product family
  • Drive cross-organizational initiatives collaborating with various teams
  • Qualify new hardware and firmware for production
  • Serve as primary technical contact with contract manufacturers
  • Mentor senior engineers to enhance technical decision-making
  • Design and lead experiments for product performance and yield issues
  • Utilize statistical methods for continuous improvement of products and processes
  • Travel to Asia annually for collaboration with contract manufacturers

Benefits

  • Access to healthcare benefits
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Merit increases based on individual performance
  • Annual bonuses and stock options
  • Sales incentives depending on role
  • Eligibility for additional rewards based on performance
Full Job Description
Team Overview:

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.
What You Will Do:
  • 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
What You Will Bring:
  • 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
Compensation & 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 $185,000 - $277,600. 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.

About Impinj

Impinj is a leading provider of RAIN RFID solutions. The company's platform connects billions of everyday items such as apparel, medical supplies, automobile parts, luggage and food to applications such as inventory management, patient safety, asset tracking and item authentication, delivering real-time information to businesses about items they create, manage, transport and sell. Impinj leverages its technology and industry partnerships to deliver comprehensive and compelling solutions to retail, healthcare, supply chain and logistics, hospitality, food and beverage and industrial manufacturing sectors. For more information, visit www.impinj.com.
Learn more about Impinj
Size
332 employees
Market Cap
$2.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$51.9 million
Founded
2000
5 Year Trend
+11.1%
Revenue
$138.9 million
NASDAQ

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