Jobs at Cognex

Executes localized ABM outbound strategies to penetrate high-priority enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include personalized multi-channel prospecting, account mapping, intent-driven outreach, seminar attendance generation, CRM and pipeline tracking, and collaboration with sales and technical teams. The representative also manages automated digital agents, optimizes sequences and messaging using performance data, and develops technical knowledge of machine vision, AI, sensors, and barcode solutions to qualify industrial customer applications.

Responsible for meeting sales quotas, prospecting customers, conducting site visits, demonstrating machine-vision products, solving automation applications, maintaining CRM records, gathering competitive intelligence, and generating leads. The role requires field sales activity at manufacturing facilities, participation in trade shows, technical problem-solving, customer communication, and limited overnight travel.

Provide remote technical support for Cognex machine vision systems to integrators and end users. Troubleshoot and reproduce issues, manage CRM cases, document solutions, create knowledge-base content, coordinate with global support and engineering teams, and escalate product issues. The role requires knowledge of machine vision, industrial automation, networking protocols, PLCs, programming, electronics, and customer service. It is hybrid and may require international travel.

Develops and closes profitable business within assigned accounts, builds long-term customer and partner relationships, manages sales pipelines, demonstrates Cognex products, supports contract negotiations, coordinates product evaluations, and maintains accurate forecasting. The role serves end users and machine builders in automation-related industries, requires technical solutions selling experience, and involves intensive travel across an assigned territory.

Develop and close profitable business across assigned accounts, manage customer and partner relationships, demonstrate Cognex products, build sales pipelines, negotiate contracts, coordinate technical evaluations, support marketing events, and maintain accurate forecasts. The role serves end users and machine builders in automation and requires intensive territory travel, independent work, and technical solutions-selling experience.

Manages and grows assigned accounts by identifying opportunities, closing profitable business, building customer and partner relationships, demonstrating Cognex products, negotiating contracts, coordinating technical evaluations, developing long-term pipelines, forecasting sales, and supporting trade shows. The role requires technical solution-selling experience in automation or a similar industry, strong account management skills, target achievement, and intensive travel across an assigned territory.

Manage corporate income, indirect tax, and sales and use tax compliance; prepare quarterly and year-end tax accounting computations; analyze international tax matters, including GILTI and FDII; support tax planning, M&A, audits, and special projects; monitor tax legislation; develop tax models; advise senior management; and promote tax technology and artificial intelligence innovations.

Provides advanced technical application guidance, integration, troubleshooting, and optimization for industrial machine-vision solutions. Works with Cognex products, PLCs, controllers, optics, lighting, robotics, motion control, and automation equipment. Supports Sales with customer-facing technical expertise, conducts onsite trials, creates documentation and training, mentors applications engineers, and provides product feedback. Requires industrial-environment work, on-call flexibility, and travel up to 50%.

Supports customers with complex machine vision applications, product integration, troubleshooting, onsite optimization, trials, and technical solutions. Integrates Cognex products with PLCs, PCs, and controllers; advises Sales; documents findings; provides training; mentors applications engineers; and delivers customer feedback to product teams. Requires advanced knowledge of image processing, optics, lighting, industrial communications, programming, controls, robotics, and automation. Travel may reach 50%, with occasional evening, weekend, and on-call support.

Sources and develops suppliers for materials, parts, and indirect items while negotiating price, quality, delivery, payment terms, and contracts. Audits and reviews supplier performance, maintains supplier and SAP master data, analyzes purchasing costs, manages regulatory requirements such as RoHS and REACH, and coordinates supplier design changes. Ensures stable supply, reasonable pricing, quality, and material cost reductions aligned with company and project targets.

Leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of Cognex’s Applied AI platform for industrial automation. Directs applied AI research, cloud and edge platform engineering, production reliability, security, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. Partners across product, hardware, UX, and R&D to ship customer-focused capabilities, drives platform adoption, and builds a high-performing engineering organization. Requires extensive software engineering and leadership experience, cloud and backend expertise, and familiarity with modern AI application architectures.

Responsible for achieving territory sales quotas, prospecting and developing customer opportunities, conducting site visits and product demonstrations, solving manufacturing application challenges, and securing purchase orders. The role includes customer acquisition, CRM updates, competitive research, trade show support, lead generation, and travel to manufacturing facilities. Candidates should have a related four-year degree, strong communication skills, technical problem-solving ability, and willingness to work independently in field sales.

Drives sales of industrial machine vision and identification products to automotive accounts, suppliers, end-users, and machine builders. Responsibilities include building complex sales pipelines, exceeding quotas, negotiating contracts, demonstrating products, supporting system configuration, coordinating technical evaluations, managing strategic accounts, forecasting, and using CRM tools. The role requires bilingual English and Korean communication, frequent travel, technical solution selling, and collaboration with global teams and integration partners.

Lead full-cycle recruitment across Europe, partnering with hiring managers, HR teams, and business leaders to attract and hire talent across technical, commercial, manufacturing, operations, sales, and corporate functions. Build candidate pipelines, manage sourcing and assessments, provide market insights, oversee recruitment vendors, track recruiting metrics, improve processes, and support employer branding, university recruiting, referrals, and talent acquisition initiatives.

Develops and executes internal communications programs that align employees with company strategy, culture, and priorities. The role creates executive messages, intranet content, campaigns, videos, and meeting communications; manages intranet and digital signage channels; supports organizational change; and measures communication effectiveness through analytics and employee feedback. It partners with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to simplify complex business topics and strengthen employee engagement.

Processes customer purchase orders through Salesforce and SAP, verifies pricing and product availability, coordinates lead times and allocations, and supports returns, credits, complaints, and customer inquiries. Provides inside sales support while collaborating with Customer Master Data, Credit, Purchasing, Logistics, and Sales. Maintains order backlogs in compliance with booking and revenue recognition policies and resolves customer issues promptly.

Drive sales of industrial machine vision and identification products within an assigned territory. Build complex sales pipelines, manage quotas and forecasts, negotiate contracts, conduct product demonstrations, assess applications, and provide post-sale programming and configuration support. Collaborate with territory sales engineers, OEMs, integration partners, and applications engineering teams to support strategic accounts and successful implementations. The role requires field sales, customer relationship management, technical solution selling, and up to 20% overnight travel.

Participate in four six-month Finance rotations covering planning, analysis, reporting, accounting, and ad hoc projects. Responsibilities include analyzing booking, revenue, margin, and expense trends; providing SAP and Business Intelligence analytics; preparing management reports; improving processes; and supporting business-unit projects. The program also offers exposure to accounting, SOX, investor relations, international assignments, mentoring, networking, and career development.

Field sales role selling Cognex machine vision and sensor solutions within a defined territory. Responsible for forecasting, demos, partner enablement, account strategy, meeting quota, coordinating evaluations with Applications Engineering, attending trade shows, and maintaining project data in Salesforce. Requires intensive travel.

Field sales role selling Cognex vision and sensor solutions to end users, partners, and OEMs within an assigned territory. Develop account strategies, demonstrate products, generate leads, manage evaluations with Applications Engineering, train and enable partners, attend trade shows, collaborate with cross-territory teams, and maintain project data in Salesforce while exceeding sales quotas.