Principal Product Engineer

The role

You will lead technical strategy for RF product engineering across a product family. This includes driving cross-organization initiatives, qualifying hardware and firmware, and mentoring senior engineers.

What you will do

• Lead technical strategy for RF product engineering across an entire product family
• 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
• Mentor senior engineers
• Design and lead complex experiments to deepen understanding of product performance and test system operations
• Continuously improve products and processes using statistical process control, pareto analysis, 8D, trend charts, and histogram analysis
• Travel to Asia once per year to meet with contract manufacturers or as required

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, computer engineering or related technical field
• 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
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Merit increases
• Annual bonus
• Stock
• Sales incentives
• Healthcare benefits
• 401(k) plan and company match
• Support for remote work or a desk with a view
• Weekly Q&A sessions with executive team
• Open paid time-off policy

Before you apply

• This position has access to technologies or data subject to U.S. export control regulations
• Release or transfer of export-controlled items to non-U.S. persons may require prior authorization from the U.S. government
• Additional documentation related to national identity may be required to determine export compliance

About the company

Impinj delivers the Physical Intelligence that connects the physical world to the AI-powered digital world. Their products and solutions identify and track tens of billions of everyday items.