Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
Design and implement radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems used to track shipments or goods.
What you’d do
- Identify operational requirements for new systems to inform selection of technological solutions.
- Integrate tags, readers, or software in radio frequency identification device (RFID) designs.
- Perform systems analysis or programming of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.
- Test radio frequency identification device (RFID) software to ensure proper functioning.
- Select appropriate radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags and determine placement locations.
- Perform site analyses to determine system configurations, processes to be impacted, or on-site obstacles to technology implementation.
- Perform acceptance testing on newly installed or updated systems.
- Determine means of integrating radio frequency identification device (RFID) into other applications.
Skills that matter
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Complex Problem Solving
- Judgment and Decision Making
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Deployment Engineer
- RFID Engineer (Radio Frequency Identification Device Engineer)
- RFID Systems Engineer (Radio Frequency Identification Device Systems Engineer)
- Technical Support Engineer
- Electro Magnetic Compatibility Test Engineer
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