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:
We're seeking a principal level software engineer to join our growing team, building the next generation RAIN RFID platform for a diverse set of applications, from healthcare to logistics to retail. We have fantastic challenges ahead of us: efficient stream processing of large volumes of data; complex algorithms to process and extract insight from raw RFID data; and building a software stack that scales from one reader to a global deployment of readers. And we do all this while collaborating with engineers across the stack, from tagged items to the cloud, to deliver phenomenal integrated solutions to our customers.
Principal engineers at Impinj are software authorities in a positive and exciting environment. They work as part of a team and take our hardest challenges and implement innovative, effective solutions.
What you will do:
- Empower and inspire others to be successful
- Foster an inclusive team culture
- Advocate for best practices in software development across the company
- Collaborate closely with other development teams to understand customer requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products
- Embody our culture and values
What you will bring:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or an engineering discipline
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Proficiency in C/C++ and object-oriented design
- Experience in leading projects, facilitating code reviews, and mentoring junior team members
- Experience in defining the vision and driving implementation of sophisticated, scalable, and reliable platform solutions
- Experience delivering high-quality, tested code across multiple release cycles
- Experience developing scalable, embedded Linux solutions that tackle real-world, physical problems
- Experience with either MQTT, Kafka, AMQP, ZeroMQ or other related network technologies
- Experience with IoT solutions at scale
- An eye for building modular designs with good test coverage
Compensation and 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 $168,000 - $267,000. 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.
For a more comprehensive list of US employment benefits, click here.
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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What We Do
Impinj helps businesses and people analyze, optimize, and innovate by wirelessly connecting billions of everyday things—such as apparel, automobile parts, luggage, and shipments—to the Internet. The Impinj platform uses RAIN RFID to deliver timely data about these everyday things to business and consumer applications, enabling a boundless Internet of Things.
