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Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists

Also called: Deployment Engineer, RFID Engineer (Radio Frequency Identification Device Engineer), RFID Systems Engineer (Radio Frequency Identification Device Systems Engineer), Technical Support Engineer

What they do:

Design and implement radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems used to track shipments or goods.

On the job, you would:
  • 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.
On the job, you'll need:

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics
  • product and service development

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Basic Skills

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • use rules to solve problems

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

  • Attention to Detail
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Cooperation
  • Dependability
  • Achievement/Effort

Program testing software

  • JUnit
  • Selenium

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Development environment software

  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Ruby

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Job Outlook

The job outlook for this position is Bright.

New job opportunities are very likely in the future. This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.

Median Annual Salary: $108,170

Education

Bachelor's degree is usually needed.