RFID Design Engineer

Company Description

About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products and solutions, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical, and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. The company employs approximately 36,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2021 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com. Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer.

About Avery Dennison Smartrac

Built on a legacy of innovation and materials science, Avery Dennison Smartrac has embarked on a new era of opportunity - for every item to have a unique digital identity. Our technology has the capability to enable a world of connectivity - connecting both products and people. A world where the “who, what, and where” of every product become points of irrefutable fact and absolute visibility. Traceability, transparency, provenance, authenticity, raw material tracing, real-time inventory and personalization are guaranteed for businesses and consumers throughout the entire supply chain, cradle to cradle. At its most simplest, we are a leading Fortune 500 company making the Internet of Things a positive, transformative, worldwide reality for all of us. And we want you to be part of the journey!

Job Description

The RFID Design Engineer designs UHF and HF/NFC passive inlays for global item-level tagging applications including but not limited to apparel, supply chain, healthcare, automotive, and food markets.

This role partners with product line management to translate market performance requirements into detailed antenna design specifications and collaborate to make sure designs will meet customer needs. This position will design and create antenna concepts, conduct detailed performance measurements, and release antenna layouts to product development.

The RFID Design Engineer will also support sales and marketing with building prototypes and sampling for direct customer feedback. This role will work closely with platform engineering and supply chain to monitor the release of new designs entering manufacturing and provide expert RF technical knowledge.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Accountable for translating market requirements into antenna design specifications.

• Responsible for the design, test, and evaluation of design arrays for release to product development.

• Conduct rigorous scientific measurements using RF equipment and various in-house test systems for characterizing the RF performance of UHF and HF/NFC inlays.

• Generate performance summary outputs of design arrays and participate in design reviews.

• Conduct research on various technologies as directed by Technical Director.

• Build quick-turn prototypes to support business development activities.

• Evaluate and be able to recommend new ways of testing to automate data collection and expand technical capabilities to meet the growing market demand.

• Partner with platform engineering to support the introduction of new designs and manufacturing scale-up.

Qualifications

• Relevant masters degree or higher with experience in RF systems and design

• Practical antenna design experience, in particular, the 860-960 MHz frequency band is a plus

• Familiarity with Phase-Gate process is a plus

• Preferably experience with predictive modeling of antenna behavior using software such as HFSS

• Demonstrated ability to conduct measurements using RF equipment (Network and Spectrum Analyzers) as well as interpretation of the results

• Experience with general analogue and digital electronics with some programming experience

• Experience with engineering drawing packages such as AutoCAD preferred.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to communicate clearly with cross-functional teams

• Comfortable working independently or as part of a project team with diverse cultures across multiple geographic locations

• Experience with RFID design is a plus

• Propensity for identifying issues proactively, making decisions with incomplete information, and acting expediently

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