Technical Solution Lead

Company Description

About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company that provides branding and information labeling solutions, including pressure-sensitive materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, and a variety of converted products and solutions. The company designs and manufactures a wide range of labeling and functional materials that enhance branded packaging, carry or display information that connects the physical and the digital, and improve customers’ product performance. The company serves an array of industries worldwide, including home and personal care, apparel, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive. The company employs approximately 36,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2022 were $9.0 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Built on a legacy of innovation and materials science, Avery Dennison has embarked on a new era of opportunity. This is an opportunity to take the functional and traditional label and enable it with digital technologies that can give every item a unique digital identity and digital life.

This “intelligence applied” technology has the capability to enable a world of connected everything. A world where the 'who, what and where' of every physical, become points of irrefutable fact and absolute visibility. Provenance, authenticity, sourcing, history, real-time location; guaranteed for businesses and consumers throughout the entire supply chain and all the way to the home. At its most simple, a company with a legacy in “making labels” becomes a category-leading technology company making the Internet of Things a positive, transformative, world-wide reality for all of us. The label has always told us something about the product. Now it can tell us everything.

In February 2020, Avery Dennison acquired Smartrac, a leading manufacturer of RFID products. Combined with the Intelligent Labels business, we will leverage our deep industry knowledge and know-how in technology and innovation, R&D, quality and service to drive RFID and technology adoption across multiple industries. And we want you to be part of our journey!

Job Description

The Technical Solution Lead for food is responsible for leading the technical development of solutions for enabling the use of various digital trigger technologies for the food segment. The Technical Solution Lead works closely with the Segment Innovation Team and Global R&D teams to develop and demonstrate the value of the overall solution. The Technical Solution Lead must have a thorough understanding of RFID reader systems and RF theory. The Technical Solution Lead will be responsible for creating proof of concepts, prototypes and other demonstrators by combining the digital triggers with real world customer applications.

Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leading the technical development of new digital trigger solutions for the food segment.  Applies existing experience in RFID reader systems, electromagnetic theory to develop new solutions (combination of triggers & reader infrastructure) in the food segment.
• Strong communication skills focused on both technical and customer facing presentation of solutions.
• Understanding of system design, hardware and software requirements for both POC and scaled deployments.
• Proven ability to design solutions that directly impact customer needs.
• Proven track record of working through complex problems while remaining focused on customer goals. 
• Collaborates with global R&D and Segment Innovation teams to design systems relevant to real world customer applications, including tag performance, RFID reader system optimization and integration.
• Ability to switch between big picture vision and hands-on prototyping of new digital triggers and RFID reader system implementation.
• Initiation and development of new IP around digital trigger solutions for the food segment.
• Responsible for ownership of the solution from ideation to finalization.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. degree in Electrical engineering or related discipline; masters preferred
• 5-10 years of experience in RFID reader system implementations.
• Good understanding of the fundamentals of RFID technology and electromagnetic theory.
• 2+ years of relevant technical experience in the field of wireless communication/identification, including RFID, BLE, and other technologies.
• Understanding of wired and wireless network systems, IOT software, firmware functionality and system integration.
• 5+ years experience with RFID reader functionality, settings and antenna configuration/selection. 
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.