POS Engineer

• We are hiring a hands-on senior consultant to help design and evaluate next generation POS hardware and edge computing architecture for a large Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) environment as part of a team. The position is an onsite role in our Canton, MA support center.

• This is not a people manager role and not day to day POS support.

• The focus is architecture, tradeoffs, and future proofing especially extending hardware life, reducing OS risk, and ensuring systems can grow with software (including AI use cases) over the next 5-10 years.
  

What You'll do:

• Evaluate current POS hardware and deployment models

Evaluate edge based architectures that:

• o Reduce dependency on POS terminal OS EOS

• o Allow POS logic to move off the register where appropriate

• o Support 100% seamless offline operation and high volume store environments

Help define where workloads should run:

• o POS endpoint vs store edge vs cloud

• Assess hardware and OS choices against future growth, including AI driven workloads

• Deliver clear architecture recommendations, diagrams, and tradeoff analysis with the team
  

Required Experience (Must Have):

• POS & QSR Experience

• Hands-on experience with large enterprise POS systems in QSR or high volume retail

Strong understanding of:

• o Transactions

• o Payments

• o Peripherals

• o Offline / degraded network behavior

• Experience designing around existing POS platforms, not replacing them

Edge Computing & Architecture:

• Real experience designing or operating edge computing in distributed environments

• Comfortable with store level compute models that work even when the network is down

• Experience supporting mixed fleets (legacy hardware new stores)

POS Hardware:

Experience with enterprise POS hardware such as:

• o NCR

• o Oracle MICROS

• o HP (or similar vendors)

• Understands hardware lifecycle realities (long refresh cycles, mixed environments)
  

OS & Imaging (Hands-On):

• OS imaging and lifecycle management experience

• Windows LTSC in POS environments (including tradeoffs)

• Linux for edge or backend workloads (practical use, not ideological)
  

Future Ready & Capacity Planning (Critical)

• Understands how emerging technologies (e.g., AI, real time analytics, automation) impact store compute needs

• Experience with capacity planning and technology decisions looking 3-5 years out

• Able to design architectures where software growth does not immediately force hardware upgrades
  

We are not looking for someone to build AI models

• we are looking for someone who understands what AI and future software demand from infrastructure.
  

Nice to Have:

• Headless or API first POS / commerce architectures

• Containerized workloads at the edge

• PCI boundary and payment isolation experience

• Experience producing architecture documents for both technical teams and executives
  

What This Role Is NOT:

• Not people management

• Not vendor ownership or procurement negotiation

• Not day to day POS support or store operations

• Not an AI engineering role
  

Experience:

• 5 years high volume POS engineering experience

• 3 years edge computing in large scale environment

• 5 years POS hardware experience

• 1 year Oracle Symphony & Oracle Res
  

Ideal Candidate Summary:

• A senior individual contributor with deep POS and QSR experience who can combine edge computing, OS strategy, and capacity planning to deliver practical, future ready POS architecture recommendations without forcing unnecessary hardware refreshes.
  

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $41.61/hour - $65.01/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Salary : $42 - $65