Principal Product Engineer
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.