Job Description

WE MAKE COMPUTERS THAT CAN SEE

Cognex is the global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision. With over $600 million of cash in the bank and no debt, we are a financially strong international company with a culture that maintains the fast paced, creative environment. Our employees, proudly called “Cognoids,” take their work but not themselves seriously. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance, and hard work in a fun, rewarding, and quirky environment.

Portland’s Engineering Center

We are a set of small, dynamic teams passionate about making machine vision easy. Our embedded systems are responsible for manufacturing and processing over a billion products a day. We are responsible for architecting, developing, and verifying firmware for our highly successful In-Sight and DataMan product lines. The team works closely with hardware development and application Engineering teams and customers across the company to deliver cutting edge products on a rapid development schedule.

Your role

Join one of our Portland engineering teams working on various software development projects, continuous integration and test projects, or dev-ops infrastructure projects. Assignments will be based on individual skill sets, areas of interest, and areas of need that Cognex has. Demonstrated skill and passion for software development may lead to more complex development assignments over the course of the internship.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelors or master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or other relevant technical discipline

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers across the company to develop new products and services
• Develop prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints and prototypes
• Take ownership of your contributions through unit testing, performance testing and writing documentation

Preferred skills and interest

• Software development in C/C++ or C# and python, TypeScript, JavaScript or Angular
• Comfortable working with test hardware such as oscilloscopes and function generators
• Experience with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or other embedded platform development
• Linux experience

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.