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Job description

Job Description

Job Summary:

Ready for the job that challenges and encourages you to get the best out of yourself? Do you feel at home in a highly innovative R&D environment? Then join our team at Cognex!

This role is in the Products and Platforms organization, responsible for creating the most sophisticated industrial barcode readers 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.

W e 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. This growth translates into new challenges , and the option to maybe 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.
Based on your work experience we're offering opportunities ranging from a six-month internship with subsequent Master thesis, up to positions for principal software engineers eager to change our architecture.

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:

Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field desired
Work experience from student jobs, open source projects or other projects desired
Experience in programming required. Experience in C, C++, python or C# code highly desired
Verbal and written fluency in English required
Interest or project work experience desired with build systems & test frameworks, networking protocols or static code analysis
Scrum, clean code, test development, bug tracking, UML / documentation tools
High energy and motivated learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Good presentation, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills

If you recognize yourself in what is written above, we would love to discuss your ambitions.

Potential work areas:

Ensure a robust and high-quality product by developing test automation
Create and improve software engineering tools
Reproduce software bugs
Create documentation & Manual testing

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.