RFID Solutions Architect in Montague

RFID Solutions Architect partners directly with customers and internal teams to design, validate, and deploy end-to-end RFID solutions across inlays/tags, encoding data standards, reader infrastructure, and software integration. This role is highly consultative and will lead solution discovery, architecture, and pilot-to-scale execution ensuring our customers achieve measurable outcomes (read performance, data quality, process adoption, and ROI). This role will also influence our product roadmap based on customer and market feedback., * Lead customer discovery sessions to understand workflows, environments, constraints, and success metrics.

• Design complete RFID solutions including:
• Inlay selection and tag construction (materials, adhesives, face stocks, overlaminates, durability requirements)
• Reader architecture (handheld, fixed portals, printers/encoders, antenna placement, power/region compliance)
• Data and encoding strategy (EPC scheme, serialization approach, label formats, QA)
• Software integration (middleware/edge processing, APIs, eventing, data pipelines, reporting)
• Create technical solution documents: architecture diagrams, data flows, installation guides, pilot plans, and scale playbooks.

Pilot Execution & Performance Validation:

• Define pilot scope, success metrics, and test plans (read rate targets, environmental tests, throughput, error rates).
• Oversee pilot execution and guide troubleshooting across RF performance, tag behavior, hardware configuration, and data flow.
• Troubleshoot end-to-end performance issues: RF interference, sensitivity, tag detuning, reader tuning, software filtering, data exceptions.

Cross-Functional Leadership:

• Collaborate with Product Management to translate customer requirements into roadmap features and platform capabilities.
• Coordinate with Sales/Account teams to support pre-sales discovery, solution proposals, and technical credibility in customer meetings.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with internal teams and external partners to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, and ready for deployment.

Solution Enablement:

• Develop reusable reference architectures, configuration templates, bills of materials (BOMs), and best-practice guides.
• Train internal teams and customers on RFID principles, deployment approaches, and operational maintenance.
• Evaluate and manage technology partners (reader vendors, middleware providers, cloud platforms, integration partners).

OTHER FUNCTIONS

• Communicate professionally both within the company and externally.
• Liaise with all areas of the company in thought leadership to meet or exceed goals and customer needs.
• Contribute to an atmosphere that aligns with the company’s culture to perform big and put people first.
• Any other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, industrial engineering, information systems, or related field OR equivalent professional experience.
• 3-7 years of proven work experience in RFID solutions, systems architecture solutions engineering, or technical consulting.
• Experience with GS1 EPC standards, serialization strategies, and multi-site governance for ID management .
• Demonstrated experience delivering customer-facing RFID deployments from discovery through pilot and scale.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation and architecture diagrams for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong troubleshooting skills: diagnosing issues across RF, hardware, firmware, data, and software layers.
• Experience supporting or leading integration with enterprise systems (ERP/WMS/OMS/PLM) and data platforms.
• Positive thinking, innovative, results-driven, self-starter with sound judgment and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and facilitation skills and an ability to reach consensus and get buy-in from a team.
• Excellent project and time management skills. Must be disciplined about following up with team members to maintain momentum on projects, deliver on milestones and maintain timelines to ensure completion.
• Ability to both collaborate within a team and work independently to solve problems and generate ideas.
• Must possess strong computer skills and have fast/reliable internet connection.
• Must be willing to travel up to 30% of the time to visit customer sites, pilots, and key deployments.

Strong working knowledge of:

• UHF RFID (RAIN RFID) systems, reader/antenna concepts, and environment/performance tradeoffs
• Inlays/tags/label converting considerations (materials, adhesives, durability, detuning, test methodologies)
• Print/encode workflows and quality controls (verification, exception handling, rework)
• RFID middleware/edge processing and integration patterns (APIs, message queues, event streams)