Senior Vision Engineer

Company Description

Averna experience

Averna delivers industry-leading test solutions and services for communications and electronics device-makers worldwide, accelerating product development, quality and innovation:

• Be global@work: Serve international customers and collaborate with cross functional teams in California, across the US, with sister sites in Mexico, in Canada, in Europe and Asia
• Drive innovation@work: Participate in the development of market-leading high-tech products in the  Automotive & Transportation, Electric Vehicules, Consumer Electronics, Industrials and Life Sciences.
• Develop your talent@work: Contribute to thrilling projects that will stretch your skills and talent to the maximum.
• Enjoy success@work: Be part of a fast-growing company with award-winning products and teams.
• Share your passion@work: Meet passionate people, enjoy our modern environment and dynamic atmosphere.

Job Description

The Senior Vision Engineer in a few words:

This job is yours if you want to be part of the team which designs vision and optical test applications for our turnkey automated test & measurement systems! Job activities include designing and performing surface inspections & characterization, 2D & 3D measurement systems, accurate positioning systems and industrial inspection systems.

Our West European engineering team develops a range of custom made in-line and offline test and measurement machines to help customers achieve higher product quality, faster time to market, and greater value from their test system.

Your contribution in this role:

• Responsible for designing, realizing and validating vision system concepts and architecture and the required image processing and analysis
• Responsible for optical system architecture, realization and validation of advanced, complex and comprehensive automated test solutions
• Design optical test applications and select optical components in function of specifications
• Build prototype setups and perform theoretical calculations in addition to modeling and analyzing system performance
• Design vision test applications and select vision components in function of specifications
• Managing scope, timeline and budget within projects, in consultation with the project manager
• Ownership in project teams
• Using clear, concise and meaningful communications
• Identify, define and mitigate issues, dependencies, and risks related to projects
• Execute national & international interventions
• Deliver sales support by providing concepts, calculations and feasibility studies
• Support activities and initiatives for continuous improvement
• Document and communicate lessons learned in projects
• Practice self-development and promotes learning in others. 

Qualifications

The ideal candidate in a few words:

You are able to learn quickly; possess a strong attention to detail; have a willingness to work in an organization committed to high quality products and customer service and you have strong developed communication skills to contribute in a project team.

Degree: 

• A Master degree or PhD from an accredited engineering or science program 

Experienced:

• 3 or more years of experience in machine vision; vision inspection for production and assembly, (optical) measurement systems, image processing, optics
• Experience in optical design software like Zemax, OpticStudio, Code-V or similar is a strong asset
• Knowledge to choose correct camera, lighting and lenses for the desired applications
• Profound experience in vision software
• You have knowledge of fundamentals in designing image analyse algoritmes
• Experience in the realization of algorithms for artificial intelligence or deep learning ? is a plus
• Experience in Halcon, Cognex, LabVIEW, NI Vision, OpenCV, C/C# or Python is a plus
• Experience in medical validation (GMP, GAMP, FDA regulation, … ) is a plus
• Must be eligible to work in Europe without VISA sponsorship

Skills:

• You enjoy finding creative solutions to possible problems. You have a strong ownership of responsibilities and you escalate issues when necessary
• You thrive in organizations that adapt and evolve
• You work independently and jump at the opportunity to work with colleagues on projects
• You have strong interpersonal skills. You communicate clearly

Mobility: Up to 20% travel abroad (to customers or other Averna offices)

Multilingual: Flue