POS Engineer

HMG America LLC is the best Business Solutions focused Information Technology Company with IT consulting and services, software and web development, staff augmentation and other professional services. One of our direct clients is looking for POS Engineer in Boston Support Center, MA. Below is the detailed job description.

Location: Boston Support Center, MA or Remote

Duration: 8+ months

• 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 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.