Job Summary:
Is DevOps more to you than just configuring AWS and VMs to run the quick unit tests of web services? Do you enjoy creating tailored solutions for complex throughput problems of embedded software teams? Then join our team at Cognex! This role is in the Platforms organization, responsible for creating reusable solutions for teams around the globe to then create the most sophisticated industrial barcode readers, machine vision and smart cameras in the world. We combine custom hardware, specialized lighting and optics, and world class vision algorithms to create embedded systems for reading barcodes. Using these systems, we can find and read high-density symbols on package labels or marked directly on a variety of industrial parts, including aircraft engines, electronics substrates, and pharmaceuticals test equipment. Our devices need to read hundreds of codes per minute, so the team needs to optimize both hardware and software to create best in class technology.
We are offering a comprehensive package of both interesting and challenging work, fun, and reward:
- Work as part of one of the fastest growing and most successful companies in the industry with a double-digit growth target for the next decade. This growth translates into new challenges, and the opportunity to lead one of our growing teams.
- Join a warm, informal, and personable culture with monthly events and quarterly activities to strengthen the team.
- We have an on-site gym for all our employees, a community of active runners, and other sport activities.
- Join your colleagues in regular social outings as a team.
Just some loose terms to show that we are buzzword-proof: multi-national development teams, heterogeneous multi-core system, real-time applications, industry 4.0. Sounds exciting, right?
About you:
Our ideal candidate is a pragmatic software professional with a can-do attitude who shares the enthusiasm for learning and applying any new development that helps to keep our software platform state of the art. Here's a list of some of the things we pay attention to in our hiring process:
- Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Three years+ experience with performance optimization based on hardware, software and workflow-based bottlenecks required
- Excellent presentation, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills required
- Experience designing and maintaining a CI / CD system for multiple teams required. Experience in TeamCity and Kotlin desired
- Experience with docker, AWS, infrastructure as code desired
- High energy and motivated learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Verbal and written fluency in English required
If you recognize yourself in what is written above, we would love to discuss your ambitions.
What you will do:
- Design and enhance a continuous integration / continuous deployment pipeline to ensure fast & reliable test feedback times
- Analyze current bottlenecks, align with management on execution plan, and perform ROI analysis
- Ensure a robust and high-quality infrastructure by developing test automation
- Improve feedback times by optimizing hardware, software, and workflow-based bottlenecks
- Automate workflows of our engineers like automated regression detection, branching tools or by enabling static code analyzers
- Close collaboration with company-wide software engineering teams
- Occasional travel to the USA or Germany
About us:
Cognex is a global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision, with 2000 employees in offices worldwide. Our employees, proudly called “Cognoids”, are passionate about solving the most difficult vision problems and get to work with others who take their work seriously, but don’t take themselves seriously. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes achievement and dedication with unique rewards and celebrations.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Three years+ experience with performance optimization based on hardware, software and workflow-based bottlenecks
- Excellent presentation, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Experience designing and maintaining a CI/CD system for multiple teams
- Experience with TeamCity
- Experience with Kotlin
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- High energy and motivated learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Verbal and written fluency in English
- Willingness to travel occasionally to the USA or Germany
Cognex Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cognex and has not been reviewed or approved by Cognex.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance and dental coverage are included, and coverage is described as good compared to alternatives.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A PTO/Vacation policy is in place and time off is generally considered reasonable; time away is treated as actual downtime without expectations to work.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match is offered and is characterized as solid, though not best-in-class.
Cognex Insights
What We Do
Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of image-based products, all of which use artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that give them the human-like ability to make decisions on what they see. Cognex products include machine vision systems, machine vision sensors and barcode readers that are used in factories and distribution centers around the world where they eliminate production and shipping errors. Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 4 million image-based products, representing over $10 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, USA, Cognex has offices and distributors located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For details visit Cognex online at www.cognex.com.
