Software Engineer in Test (w/m/d)

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 Product and Platforms organization, responsible for creating the most sophisticated industrial barcode readers, machine vision and smart cameras 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.

We 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.
• 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 senior up to positions for principal engineers eager to change our architecture and team leads looking to shape the role of DevOps at Cognex.

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 :

• Engineering degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related field.
• Experience in the areas of developing C, C++ & Python software required.
• Work experience in the areas of automated white box testing desired.
• High energy and motivated learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good presentation, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Verbal and written fluency in English required.

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

What you will do :

• Writing white box tests in Python to exercise all aspects of the embedded systems.
• Enhance existing C, C++ & Python source code and test framework.
• Debug and fix existing C, C++ & Python source code.
• Create test specifications or review requirement specs with regards to completeness and testability.
• Maintain, analyze, and communicate results of test robots.
• Occasional travel to the USA or Hungary.

About us :

Cognex is a global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision, with 3000 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.

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