POS Engineer

Position: POS Engineer
Duration: 8 months
Location: Boston Support Center, MA or NJ (4 days onsite)

Will accept non local profiles who can relocate
If Anyone is OK for REMOTE ALSO

Must Have(s):
1. 5 years high volume POS engineering experience
2. 3 years edge computing in large scale environment
3. 5 years POS hardware experience
4. 1 year Oracle Symphony & Oracle Res

Contract | Individual Contributor
What This Role Is
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.

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

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.