
Solutions Engineer
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:
The Applications Engineering team converts IoT connectivity into scalable enterprise solutions retail, distribution, and operation functions. The team’s mission is twofold: serve as the technical backbone of customer engagement and enablement at scale with tools, documentation, training, and reference software stacks, and lead solution innovation through benchmarking and reference designs for priority verticals.
In this role, you'll lead all aspects of resources management, performance monitoring, solution life cycle management, and coordination of subject-matter experts to resolve high-impact customer problems.
What You Will Do:
- Develop and implement innovative RAIN RFID solution strategies to resolve significant business challenges for enterprises
- Lead structured discovery and solution architecture; translate business objectives into technical solutions
- Provide end-to-end technical support to ecosystem partners by implementing guidelines and offering onsite technical support for RAIN RFID systems and solutions
- Partner with regional sales team to promote and raise awareness of Impinj Enterprise products with ecosystem partners throughout the territory
- Identify and relay emerging customer requirements, feature requests, and market trends to product management and engineering teams including competitive insights, feature requests, and deployment blockers
- Contribute to the Applications team Center of Excellence repository through standardizing templates, curating shared libraries, and sharing guidelines and best practices for EMEA region
What You Will Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field of study; advanced degree a plus
- 5+ years in RAIN RFID applications or adjacent fields with hands-on commissioning, field testing, and customer-facing troubleshooting
- Understanding of RF fundamentals, e.g.) link budgets, antenna performance, propagation, interference control, reader mode optimization; proficiency with test equipment and validation methods
- Understanding of data pipelines and integration with APIs/SDKs and dashboards; ability to standardize telemetry for health, drift monitoring, and KPI tracking
- Proficiency in Python, C/C++, or JavaScript; ability to produce sample code, tools, and data analyses to accelerate diagnostics and partner enablement
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to lead customer discovery, present architectures, write concise runbooks, and align cross-functional owners to acceptance criteria
- Willingness and ability to travel 25–50% across Spain and EMEA for onsite discovery, pilots, and production support
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 Spain is 70,000€ - 85,000€. 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.
US Export Controls:
This position has access to technologies or data subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these laws, the release or transfer of export-controlled items or information to individuals who are not classified as "U.S. persons" (as defined by Immigration & Nationality Act) may require prior authorization from the U.S. government. We may require additional documentation related to national identity to determine whether an export compliance license is required for any export-controlled items. This information is requested solely for the purpose of complying with U.S. export control laws and will not be used for other purposes. Learn more about export compliance 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.
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