Senior RF Product Architect — Lead Production & Strategy (Remote)

Matcha; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Impinj is seeking a Senior RF Product Engineer to lead the technical strategy for RF product engineering across a product family, driving cross-functional collaboration with hardware, firmware, test, systems, and manufacturing to scale production and optimize yields.

This role requires deep RF, analog, and digital circuit expertise, proficiency with data analysis tools, and strong leadership to mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, computer engineering or related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience in product engineering with wireless, RF, and/or network products.
• Prior experience with RF, analog, and digital circuits.
• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• 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, trend charts, and histogram analysis.
• Travel to Asia once per year to meet with our contract manufacturers or as required based on business need.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross‑functional collaboration

Written & verbal communication

Problem solving

Mentoring

RF/wireless/product engineering

Team leadership

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Spectrum analyzer

Vector network analyzer

Signal generator

Power meter

Spotfire

Python

PLM / data analysis tools

Job description

Impinj is seeking a Senior RF Product Engineer to lead the technical strategy for RF product engineering across a product family, driving cross-functional collaboration with hardware, firmware, test, systems, and manufacturing to scale production and optimize yields.

This role requires deep RF, analog, and digital circuit expertise, proficiency with data analysis tools, and strong leadership to mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions across the organization.