Purpose of the position within Cognex
The purpose of this position is to work together in a team to develop system software components and to participate in all related activities, to be run on programmable vision systems and their supplementary products. In this role you will contribute to the platform layer of the software stack, serving a variety of product in Cognex’s advanced machine vision portfolio for factory automation and logistics applications.
Responsibilities
• Work in the Software Platforms organization, delivering and maintaining system software components for a broad set of internal clients
• Develop software primarily in C++, writing clean, modular, performant and optionally cross-platform code. Strive for the highest quality, while avoiding the creation of technical debt
• Collaborate in a diverse engineering community distributed across sites and time-zones, delivering products that make up of a layered software stack
• Apply proven design principles and modern guidelines for creating secure software components, conformant with international cybersecurity standards, such as IEC 62443
• Use sophisticated tooling to analyze, debug, track down, and fix issues or vulnerabilities emerging in your domain.
• Evaluate, adopt and integrate open source libraries as suited for your deliveries
• Participate in code reviews across teams and codebases, help catching issues early
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Software development
• Strong background in software engineering best practices and design principles
• Deep understanding of the C++ language, tooling and technology stack
• Decent comfort level in CMake, Linux and Python
• Fluency in Hungarian and English
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in distributed teams
• Ability to use Git version control in advanced ways (clean history, rebase-workflow, etc.)
• Experience with any of the following technologies is a plus: Yocto / Bitbake, Conan.io, WSL, TrustZone, Video4Linux, Docker, TeamCity, Kotlin, C#, Go, pybind, Industrial Network Protocols, Microsoft 365 tools)
Office Address: East-West Business Center - Rákóczi út 1-3. 1088 Budapest, Hungary
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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.
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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.
