Jobs at Cognex

A 12-month paid development program for graduating undergraduate seniors and master's students. Participants rotate through customer success functions including application engineering, sales enablement, project management, field service, and customer support while gaining exposure to sales, marketing, and product management. The program requires relocation to Natick, Massachusetts, frequent travel across the continental United States, technical and commercial training, and completion of an executive-presented group project. Participants transition into a full-time Cognex role after graduation.

Designs technical and commercial solutions for industrial automation projects, supports pre-sales trials and demonstrations, evaluates hardware and software risks, and ensures accurate project handoffs. Provides technical guidance, training, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Works with sales, customers, project teams, and contractors while supporting controls, PLCs, industrial networks, image processing, robotics, conveyance, and onsite optimization. Requires frequent customer-site work, industrial-environment experience, and 30–50% travel.

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.

Ensures Cognex products meet quality standards throughout new product introduction and the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include monitoring quality metrics, managing CAPA, troubleshooting process and product issues, performing root cause and failure analysis, implementing corrective actions, creating qualification standards, and driving continuous improvement across design, manufacturing, test, and process engineering teams.

Leads and scales a global team of 18 sales development professionals while transforming outbound and account-based marketing execution. Owns the sales development technology stack, AI and automation strategy, predictive intent workflows, account scoring, cross-functional alignment, and performance analytics. Partners with Sales and Demand Generation leadership to improve account engagement, pipeline velocity, rep productivity, technology adoption, and campaign ROI.

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.

Leads and scales a global team of 18 sales development professionals, transforming outbound and ABM execution. Owns the SDE technology stack, Salesforce workflows, AI and automation strategy, predictive intent integrations, account scoring, and cross-functional alignment with Sales and Demand Generation. Builds dashboards and governance to measure account engagement, pipeline velocity, productivity, ROI, and technology adoption. The role is hybrid and based in Natick, Massachusetts.

Sell and close industrial machine vision solutions to end users, partners, and OEMs across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. Responsibilities include forecasting opportunities, conducting solution-sales customer visits, demonstrating products, managing leads, coordinating evaluations with Applications Engineering, collaborating across territories, supporting trade shows, and maintaining Salesforce project information. The role requires independent work, approximately 40% travel, and consistent achievement of sales targets.

Field sales engineer responsible for forecasting and closing industrial vision solution opportunities with end users, partners, and OEMs in Ciudad Juárez. Demonstrates products, manages leads and customer visits, identifies strategic opportunities, understands system requirements, coordinates evaluations with Applications Engineering, supports trade shows, collaborates across territories, and maintains sales project information. Requires technical sales experience, a record of exceeding targets, automation industry knowledge, independent work capability, and 40% travel.

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.

Lead sales engineering for vision and sensor solutions: forecast and close deals, demo products, support partners and OEMs, coordinate evaluations, maintain salesBook, and drive strategic account plans and trade show activities.

Provide expert remote technical support and act as front-line escalation for Cognex products across Europe. Troubleshoot complex hardware, software, and networking issues, coordinate cross-functional resolution, document cases in CRM, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to knowledge base and product improvements. Work hybrid from Milan and support English and Italian speaking customers.

Lead global Record-to-Report accounting operations and transformation: oversee general ledger, intercompany, consolidation, reconciliations, statutory reporting, audits, internal controls, and drive automation, AI/GenAI enablement, ERP modernization, and operational KPIs across global teams.