RFID Solutions Architect

Description

RFID Solution Architecture

Responsibilities

- Own end to end technical design for our Client's customer implementations

- Lead technical due diligence for new opportunities before commercial commitment

- Translate customer business problems into practical RFID and traceability architectures

- Determine solution feasibility, system boundaries, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and technical risks

- Define the recommended technology stack for each use case, including RFID frequency, tag class, reader architecture, antenna strategy, edge devices, connectivity, and infrastructure

- Determine when RFID is the right technology and when BLE, barcode, vision, RTLS, sensing, or a hybrid architecture is more appropriate

- Design the complete ecosystem across tags, readers, antennas, portals, handhelds, printers, gateways, networks, software, data, and enterprise integrations

RFID Hardware and Site Engineering

- Lead hardware selection including RFID labels and inlays, fixed readers, handheld readers, antennas, portals, printers, sensors, gateways, and supporting infrastructure

- Evaluate tag type, frequency, placement, orientation, read range, material interference, environmental conditions, movement, density, shielding, and expected read performance

- Conduct site surveys, read zone analysis, RF testing, proof of concepts, hardware validation, and performance testing

- Design solutions for challenging environments including metal, liquids, stacked product, hidden inventory, dense pallets, warehouses, production areas, staging areas, and loading docks

- Own vendor and hardware evaluation, qualification, testing, and standardization across the Trace Cor ecosystem

- Maintain approved hardware, tag, reader, antenna, and infrastructure standards for repeatable deployments

- Understand regional RFID frequency requirements, regulatory constraints, certification requirements, and hardware compatibility for deployments across different markets

- Build and maintain a Trace Cor test environment for validating tags, readers, antennas, configurations, hardware, and customer use cases before field deployment

Requirements

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in architecture, design, or implementation of RFID, industrial IoT, automation, or traceability solutions.

- At least 7 years of hands-on experience developing and deploying technical solutions in operational environments is strongly preferred.

- Demonstrated success delivering RFID initiatives from discovery and site evaluation through design, testing, launch, and post-deployment support.

- Strong understanding of RF principles, tag and inlay selection, antenna configuration, fixed and handheld readers, printers, portals, and read-zone optimization.

- Experience working in manufacturing, automotive, warehousing, logistics, distribution, food production, or similar industrial settings.

- Ability to translate business requirements into clear technical architectures and make sound decisions around feasibility, risk, and system design.

- Familiarity with automation concepts, digital documentation, and enterprise-integrated solution design is beneficial.

Technical

- Ability to diagnose RFID performance issues involving materials, orientation, interference, shielding, density, distance, and environmental conditions

- Working knowledge of enterprise integrations, APIs, networking, databases, middleware, and common ERP or operational systems

- Ability to produce solution architecture, site layouts, technical requirements, bills of material, testing plans, and implementation documentation

- Experience with major RFID ecosystems such as Zebra, Impinj, HID, Avery Dennison, or comparable technologies is strongly preferred

Customer and Execution

- Strong consultative presence with the ability to walk into a customer site, ask the right questions, and independently determine what is needed

- Able to explain complex technical decisions clearly to executives, operations teams, engineers, developers, and customer stakeholders

- Bias for action, strong judgment, and the ability to solve ambiguous field problems without constant direction

- Comfortable traveling to customer sites for discovery, testing, pilots, implementation, and troubleshooting as required

Education

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, industrial engineering, automation, or related technical field preferred

- Equivalent deep industry experience in RFID solution architecture and deployment will be…