Position: POS EngineerDuration: 8+ monthsLocation: Boston Support Center, MA (4 days onsite)Must Have(s): - 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
Contract | Individual ContributorWhat 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 upgradesWe 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 SummaryA
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.