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# Product Engineer at Scandit

- **Company:** Scandit
- **Location:** Tampere, Finland
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://www.scandit.com/careers/job-description/?gh_jid=8349582

## Job description

Product Engineer

Scandit TAMPERE

Imagine the What. Build the How. Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us, as we continue to expand, grow and innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

## About the Role

As one of Scandit's Product Engineers, you will work as part of the product squad to evaluate and build out our solution capabilities using multi-barcode reading, tracking, augmented reality, and text recognition. You will partner closely across the software engineering and product teams to develop new products and features, as well as continuously optimize our existing products.

You'll ensure new developments and features meet our performance, user experience, and enterprise-grade standards, while solving customers' challenges along the way. Based on a hypothesis-driven discovery approach with direct customer feedback, you'll collect data and evidence to understand the challenges and product requirements in detail. Daily interaction with our engineering teams will ensure a fast feedback loop and agile development.

## What You Will Do

Responsibilities include working with customers to understand their needs, building proof of concepts, and evaluating the technical performance of existing products. This ensures data capture quality and performance meet enterprise-grade standards at every stage of development, including rebuilding setups and replicating customer use cases in our labs.

- Work closely together with engineering and the wider product team to define product quality metrics of prototypes and products
- Build test systems for measuring the quality and performance of new product features or improvements
- Evaluate and drive the analysis of customer feedback and requests

## Who You Are

As an ideal candidate, you have initial programming experience, and you're interested in building functional prototypes and test setups with a strong focus on user and customer needs. You're data-driven and thrive in fast-paced evaluation work. You enjoy communicating with technical or business stakeholders, as well as discussing product specifications with the wider product team.

- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science, ideally with an industrial engineering or robotics background
- 2+ years of industry experience
- Strong customer focus and problem-solving skills
- A metric- and data-driven mindset
- Interest in working on the intersection of engineering and business
- Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written
- Eligible to work in Finland and available to work at our Tampere office at least 3 days per week

Our Approach To AI

AI is part of how we work. Scandit embraces AI-native engineering, where engineers direct agents to deliver customer outcomes, using the tools they choose. We want to know how you use them, where you’ve hit their limits, and how you keep improving human-agent collaboration. We take pride in our craft, and that means making sure what agents deliver meets our quality bar.

## What We Offer

Here are some of the reasons people choose to build their career at Scandit:

- Certified as a Great Place To Work for four years in a row
- Rated 4/5 by our employees on Glassdoor
- Access to Claude Cowork and Claude Code, plus a budget to experiment with other AI tools
- Weekly “How to Use AI” sessions and internal AI Champions to help turn your ideas into reality
- A share in our success through an individual equity plan
- Extra days off on top of your annual leave
- Office shutdown days, global team events and innovation hackathons

Plus specific benefits depending on the location you are joining.

You could be the difference

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all.

All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

Imagine the What. Build the How.

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## About Scandit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scandit provides a Smart Data Capture platform powered by vision AI that enables enterprises to capture and analyze barcode, ID, and label data from any smart device, turning physical-world data into real-time business decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland (Global HQ: Hardturmstrasse 18, 8005 Zurich)
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Three researchers from MIT, ETH Zurich, and IBM Research (individual names not publicly listed on the company site)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Software / Smart Data Capture / Computer Vision
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises in retail, logistics, healthcare, air travel, and post/parcel sectors
- **Mission or purpose**: "Turn camera input into decision-making" — enabling workers and customers to blend physical and digital worlds with unmatched speed, accuracy, and intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Data Capture SDK & Frameworks**: Software development kits that add barcode, text, or ID scanning to any iOS or Android app in under 5 minutes. Handles 80bn scans annually across low light, damage, distance, and glare conditions. Includes AR guidance and intent detection.
- **Scandit Express (turnkey app)**: Pre-built mobile application for rapid deployment of scanning workflows.
- **Shelf Intelligence & Execution**: AI-powered planogram and price compliance, expiry management & markdowns, and stock detection to boost on-shelf availability to over 95%.
- **Intelligent In-store Picking**: Increases fulfillment capacity by up to 4.6% without additional headcount, optimizing cost per order and service levels using existing labor hours.
- **ID Scanning & Validation**: Fast, accurate, and secure ID scanning and validation processed on-device for maximum privacy. ISO 27001 certified.
- **Scandit Agent Skills**: Brings 15 years of barcode, label, and ID scanning expertise into coding agents for custom integrations and pre-built components.
- **Retail Insights by Vision AI**: Turns visual store data into real-time inventory visibility and prioritized actions, increasing store revenue by up to 2% and cutting waste by up to 40%.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $273M (Series D led by Warburg Pincus).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Warburg Pincus (lead investor). Other investors include GV (Google Ventures), NGP Capital, and others from earlier rounds.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Trusted by over 2,100 customers worldwide.
  - Active on more than 170 million mobile devices.
  - Processes over 50 billion scans per year.
  - Achieved NPS score of +65.
  - Job postings up +66.7% year-over-year (10 active postings as of mid-2025).
  - Offices in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Finland, Poland, Japan, and Italy.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Computer Vision Moat**: Proven at 80bn scans a year with ability to read barcodes in extreme conditions (low light, damage, distance, glare) — a 15-year R&D head start.
- **On-Device Processing**: All ID scanning and validation happens on-device (ISO 27001 certified), ensuring maximum privacy and offline capability.
- **Platform Agnostic**: Works on any smart device (smartphones, handhelds, fixed cameras, drones) — no proprietary hardware lock-in.
- **End-to-End Solution**: From SDKs and turnkey apps to shelf intelligence and retail insights, covering both data capture and actionable analytics.
- **Enterprise-Grade Support**: Includes trials, solution design, integration, and customer success support in the standard offering.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Retail Intelligence**: Moving beyond barcode scanning into AI-driven shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, and waste reduction — targeting grocers, convenience stores, pharmacies, and DIY.
- **Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization**: Deepening capabilities in in-store picking and fulfillment to boost capacity without headcount increases.
- **Global Scale**: Growing office footprint (recent additions in Poland, Italy) and customer base (2,100+ customers) across retail, logistics, healthcare, and air travel.
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Launching "Scandit Agent Skills" to embed scanning expertise into coding agents, lowering integration barriers for new customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes innovation, pioneer spirit, team spirit, dedication, getting things done, and having fun. Described as "human, warm, and collaborative."
- **Work Model**: Flexible — "Work at home, at the office or hybrid."
- **Global Team**: Employees across 5 continents with memorable global gatherings (e.g., 2024 global team outing in Croatia).
- **Recognition**: Certified "Great Place to Work" in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Spain, Finland, Poland, and Italy.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on big brains having freedom to think, innovation hackathons, and collaboration with brilliant minds. Alumni go to top tech companies (Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple).
- **Perks**: "Share in our success" culture, legendary team outings, and a space to stretch yourself.

## Sources
1. [scandit.com](https://www.scandit.com/)
2. [scandit.com/company](https://www.scandit.com/company/)
3. [scandit.com/careers](https://www.scandit.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Scandit](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scandit)

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