Project Engineer

At RADAR, we're transforming the way the world thinks about physical retail. RADAR has raised over $104M from top investors, retailers, and strategics and works with some of the world's retail brands including American Eagle and Gap. We’re building the future of in-store experience where every product and every person can be precisely located in real time.

Our platform combines RFID and AI to unlock hyper-accurate product visibility and automation at scale. From real-time inventory tracking to seamless checkout experiences, our technology empowers some of the world’s largest retailers to streamline operations, reduce loss, and elevate both employee and customer experiences.

We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven startup where bold ideas, collaboration, and impact are at the core of everything we do. Join us as we reshape the physical world with digital precision, starting with retail and expanding far beyond!

• Mission-Driven: We're transforming retail with cutting-edge technology and building something that truly matters.
• Collaborative Team: We thrive on curiosity, shared goals, and solving complex problems together.
• High Impact: You’ll make meaningful contributions from day one and help shape the future of our product and company.
• Clear Communication: We value honesty, humility, and respectful dialogue—everyone’s voice matters.
• Balanced Lives: We work hard, but not at the expense of well-being. We respect time, boundaries, and life outside of work.
• Diverse Perspectives: We believe better ideas come from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.
• Empathy-Driven Design: We build with deep respect for our end users, listening closely to their feedback and needs.

We're looking for a hands-on senior technical generalist who can move fluidly across the full stack of a retail deployment — from reader antenna placement and RF environment debugging, to understanding how location fixes propagate through our cloud pipeline. You'll be embedded in the work, not above it.

The job is to unblock problems, make calls in the field, and keep the deployment moving forward. When RFID read rates are off, you're the person who figures out why  and fixes it. You'll work closely with hardware engineers, firmware developers, backend and cloud engineers, and RADAR’s own infrastructure team  and you need to hold a real technical conversation with all of them.

You'll be operating across this stack on a daily basis:
RFID (UHF Gen2)  ·  Indoor positioning  ·  Reader firmware  ·  RF propagation  ·  MAC / physical layer  ·  Cloud pipelines  ·  Mobile SDKs  ·  Store network / IT

• Walk a store and diagnose why RFID read rates are off — antenna angle, reader config, interference, multipath, tag placement — and make the call on the fix
• Triage location performance issues end-to-end: from physical layer through the cloud pipelines
• Translate what you're seeing in the field into precise, actionable bug reports and configuration changes for hardware, firmware, and backend engineers
• Work directly with internal partner teams, as well as the retailer's IT, facilities, and operations teams to get things done on the ground — cabling, network access, reader mounting, rollout sequencing.  
• Identify the real blockers, not the reported ones, and drive them to closure without waiting for perfect information
• Own the deployment plan for each store phase: what gets installed, in what order, how it gets validated, and what done looks like
• Build the institutional knowledge that makes the second and third store easier than the first — runbooks, failure modes, calibration playbooks
• Serve as the translation layer between Radar's full-stack engineering org and the retailer's technical teams

• You have expertise with RFID systems — UHF Gen2, reader configuration, antenna selection and placement, tag behavior in complex RF environments
• You are familiar with physical layer and/or MAC layer fundamentals  from wireless comms, base station work, or related RF systems
• You are familiar with indoor positioning — for example BLE, Wi-Fi, or sensor fusion at a working level
• You have experience in debugging and root cause analysis across hardware/firmware/software boundaries
• You have supported field deployments in real environments, not just labs
• You can work fluently across HW, FW, embedded, backend, and cloud engineering teams
• You are highly organized with exceptional attention to detail, able to maintain quality and thoroughness in environments that move fast
• You are a clear and confident communicator, comfortable translating technical details into actionable insights for both engineering teams and non-technical retail stakeholders
• You have hands-on experience coordinating project execution, handling competing priorities and ambiguity with composure and rigor

• You have retail or supply chain environment exposure
• You are familiar with cloud telemetry pipelines and observability tooling
• You can perform RF measurements — spectrum analyzers, site surveys, signal mapping
• You have familiarity with data analysis, algorithm tuning, or signal processing concepts that translate to improving system performance in the field
• You are experienced working at a fast-paced startup or high-growth technology company where agility, ownership, and resourcefulness are essential

• Learn Radar’s mission, technology stack and core values.
• Complete onboarding and security compliance training.
• Visit one of RADAR’s lab stores to experience the end-to-end system in operation

• Visit a pilot store installation
• Use existing analysis tools to assess the performance of the pilot store installation
• Work with project management and customer experience teams to define a test plan for the pilot

• Identify system bottlenecks or performance deficiencies and work with engineering teams to resolve them
• Create performance test reports to share with stakeholders
• Develop new analysis tools for assessing system performance

At RADAR, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The expected base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $280,000. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors,  including job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training.You will also be eligible to receive other benefits including: equity, comprehensive medical and dental coverage, life and disability benefits, 401k plan,  flexible time off, and paid parental leave. The pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. 

Research has shown that women & underrepresented minorities are more likely to read lists of requirements and consider themselves unqualified if they don't meet every single one. This list represents what we're ideally looking for, but everyone has unique strengths & weaknesses, and we hire for strength & potential, not lack of weakness.

Use of artificial intelligence or a LLM such as ChatGPT during the interview process will be grounds for rejection of your application process.