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Packaging Intern

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Impinj

Apr 20

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Engineering

Requirements

  • Extensive research experience demonstrated as a post-doc, PhD, or Masters candidate with prior work experience
  • Background in packaging science or similar discipline
  • Experience with corrugated containers, paperboard cartons, sustainable packaging, and packaging machinery
  • Knowledge of the performance characteristics of passive RF components/systems and communication protocols (RFID-specific knowledge is a plus)
  • Demonstrated experience working independently in a fast-paced environment and ability to self-manage sophisticated program delivery
  • Experience with data management, critical analysis, and attention to detail
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills, including ability to work and communicate effectively with diverse individuals and teams within and outside of the company, ranging from engineers and scientists, to product managers and executives

Responsibilities

  • Define how RAIN RFID enables the sustainability both pre-purchase, for businesses and supply chains, and post-purchase, through consumer re-use and recycling of everyday items
  • Investigate the lifecycle of retail packaging—such as corrugate, plastic, glass, and metal—from manufacture through consumer use and end-of-life (reuse and recycling)
  • Conceptualize and design future technology and product proposals through individual research and collaborative partnerships
  • Develop partnerships with internal and external collaborators, such as suppliers, consultants, procurement, technical program managers, and engineers for researching unique business opportunities
  • Define system-level requirements and derive product requirements for how the Impinj products and the Impinj Platform can enable to circular economy/sustainability and recyclability of RAIN RFID-tagged retail items and their packaging
  • Rapidly identify resources and efficiently learn cutting-edge technologies in RFID industry
  • Communicate technical opportunities, challenges, and progress to broad audiences

Enabling a Boundless Internet of Things

Technology
Industry
201-500
Employees
2000
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Impinj (NASDAQ: PI) helps businesses and people analyze, optimize, and innovate by wirelessly connecting billions of everyday things—such as apparel, automobile parts, luggage, and shipments—to the Internet. The Impinj platform uses RAIN RFID to deliver timely data about these everyday things to business and consumer applications, enabling a boundless Internet of Things. If it’s a thing, our platform can connect it. Impinj enables digital transformation by extending the Internet’s reach from the cloud, through edge connectivity devices, all the way to physical items. Our broad partner ecosystem uses our platform's best-in-market products, capabilities, and technology to build IoT solutions that bring visibility and automation to intelligent systems. Wirelessly connect everyday items. Identify, locate, and protect them. And deliver data about those items to applications like inventory management, asset management, and shipment verification. Why become an Impinjineer? At Impinj, you will find an innovative, passionate, curious team that is constantly pushing ideas forward and creating technology that positively impacts the world. Our employees enjoy competitive benefits, a flexible & collaborative work environment, and the knowledge that they are making a difference. Diversity & Inclusion We recognize our responsibility to use our platform, voice, and influence to seek out injustices and ensure that Impinj becomes a model of D&I. That responsibility starts from within. As a result of sincere, months-long discussions, our team members decided on these goals to bolster Impinj’s diversity efforts: * Diversify our hiring process and seek out applicants from diverse backgrounds
 * Maintain an inclusive, respectful workplace where team members from all backgrounds feel supported and have opportunities for development * Participate in our community * Actualize and commit to our D&I strategy through our newly formed cross-divisional Diversity Action Team.