Job Description
About Us: Cognex is the world's leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing automation. Cognex vision helps companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high quality products at an affordable price. Typical applications formachine visioninclude detecting defects, monitoring production lines, guiding assembly robots, and tracking, sorting and identifying parts.
Cognex serves an international customer base from offices located throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and through a global network of integration and distribution partners. The company is headquartered close to Boston in Natick, Massachusetts
We will consider candidates located within these areas of the US - Kansas City, Missouri, St Louis, Missouri, Chicago, Illinois, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Des Moines, Iowa and other areas that may be nearby. This position will be remote in these general vicinities when not traveling to the customer site
Summary: The AE team determines the right combination of Cognex products, lighting, optics and automation engineering for an optimal solution that fits within the customer's defined budget and skillset. The AE team provides technical expertise to customers and collaborates with the Sales organization to influence the selling of Cognex products.
Essential Functions: - Provides application guidance for medium-complexity applications across Cognex products and prioritizes as necessary. For complex applications, may require the support of more experienced AEs
- Provides standard integration of Cognex products with devices such as PLCs, PCs, or Controllers
- Performs standard troubleshooting for Cognex products and develops knowledge of peripheral technology
- Supports Sales with technical inputs when communicating with or visiting customers to help Cognex win
- Shares findings with the AE community
- Responsible for maintaining business systems information in a timely manner for accurate reporting
- Provides product/customer feedback to AE Manager to improve products
Knowledge: - Develops a general technical knowledge of Cognex's vision and sensor product families
- General knowledge of image processing, optics and/or lighting for machine vision is desirable or can be developed quickly
- General knowledge of industrial communication methods, networks, programming languages, controls (installation, wiring, operability), PLCs, and/or Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)-P rogramming languages may include: javascript, VB, VB.Net, C , .Net, C
- General industry knowledge to include movement of product, understanding of motion control, robotics, and other automation equipment
- General knowledge of controls engineering concepts such as installation, wiring, and operability from prior experience
- Working knowledge of MS Office applications. Windows based PC industrial connectivity in a lab and automation environment
Skills and Abilities: - Solid understanding of electro-mechanical solutions
- Solid ability to conduct and troubleshoot onsite optimizations, perform trials, and conduct data analytics to improve performance on solutions
- Solid ability to handle challenging customer situations
- Solid interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively establish relationships, communicate, influence, and present to various stakeholders
- Solid presentation skills
Minimum Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as Engineering, Computer Science; or an otherwise equivalent technical experience
- Typically requires a minimum of 2-4 years of experience in technical application development. Experience in a related or high-tech industry preferred
- Ability to adapt to flexible working hours including the availability to work evening and weekend hours or varying work patterns depending on customer or project needs. Ability to be on-call and respond to customer emergencies
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, sometimes on short notice. Travel will vary depending on region, time of year, and customer needs
- Ability to work safely in industrial environments by strictly following safety guidelines and protocols (may vary per region/customer). This job has physical requirements including the ability to lift up to 50 pounds (appx. 23 kilograms)
- Must maintain customer confidentiality to protect confidential or sensitive customer information
- English language proficiency (written and oral)
Additional Job Description
Equal Employment Opportunity Cognex is an equal opportunity employer. Cognex evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.