Purpose of the Position within Cognex
You’ll join our Frontend Platform organization, building and evolving the core libraries, tools, frameworks, and UI components used across multiple Cognex products. Most of our current work is in Angular and Flutter, and we maintain a large shared library that is critical to the business.
As a Principal Engineer, you will be a highly experienced technical contributor, helping solve complex engineering challenges and design scalable, maintainable solutions. In addition to hands-on development, you will contribute to architectural discussions, mentor other engineers, and help promote engineering best practices across the organization.
Areas of Responsibility
- Own and evolve shared frontend libraries, frameworks, and internal tooling used across multiple product teams.
- Contribute to architectural improvements and the long-term technical direction of our frontend platform.
- Design scalable, maintainable, and reusable solutions that can be adopted across products.
- Build high-quality production code.
- Evaluate new technologies and help identify the right solutions for technical challenges.
- Promote engineering best practices with a focus on performance, reliability, maintainability, and scalability.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance when needed.
- Share knowledge through design reviews, technical presentations, and other learning opportunities.
Objective Requirements Related to the Position
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Strong experience building large-scale frontend applications using modern frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue, or Flutter.
- Solid Angular knowledge or willingness to develop deep expertise quickly, as it is currently our primary frontend technology.
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript and modern frontend development practices.
- Strong understanding of API integration, backend systems, and software engineering best practices.
- Strong technical judgment, problem-solving skills, and the ability to lead technical discussions and make pragmatic decisions.
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping raise engineering standards.
- Fluency in English.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Flutter, React, or Avalonia.
- Experience designing and maintaining component libraries, design systems, or shared platform code.
- Experience leading technology modernization or migration efforts.
- Experience working in platform teams or multi-product environments.
- .NET exposure and understanding of full-stack systems.
- Experience contributing to engineering standards and technical best practices across teams.
- Conference presentations, technical community involvement, open-source contributions, or other forms of technical leadership.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
- Strong experience building large-scale frontend applications using frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue, or Flutter
- Solid Angular knowledge or willingness to develop deep expertise quickly
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript and modern frontend development practices
- Strong understanding of API integration, backend systems, and software engineering best practices
- Strong technical judgment, problem-solving skills, and ability to lead technical discussions and make pragmatic decisions
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping raise engineering standards
- Fluency in English
- Experience with Flutter, React, or Avalonia
- Experience designing and maintaining component libraries, design systems, or shared platform code
- Experience leading technology modernization or migration efforts
- Experience working in platform teams or multi-product environments
- .NET exposure and understanding of full-stack systems
- Experience contributing to engineering standards and technical best practices across teams
- Conference presentations, technical community involvement, open-source contributions, or other technical leadership
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.
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