POS Engineer

Solution IT Inc. is looking for POS Engineer for one of its clients in Boston MA/ Hybrid

Job Title: POS Engineer

Summary

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.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate current POS hardware and deployment models
• Evaluate edge-based architectures that:
• Reduce dependency on POS terminal OS EOS
• Allow POS logic to move off the register where appropriate
• Support 100% seamless offline operation and high-volume store environments
• Help define where workloads should run:
• 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 Skills:

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.

Work Site: Boston MA/ Hybrid

Duration: 8 Months

Expected Start Date: Immediate

Number of Positions: 1

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About Solution IT

Solution IT is a national IT consulting company specializing in: Technology Staffing and Oracle E-Business Solutions based in Boston Massachusetts.

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Recruiting Team

SOLUTION IT INC
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