Senior Industrial Vision & Edge ML Engineer

Mindtrace.ai; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindtrace is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Manchester to expand hardware and sensing for its industrial inspection products. You will prototype, validate, and productize new hardware approaches across cameras, sensors, optics, lighting, and edge compute.

The role focuses on moving beyond 2D inspection toward richer sensing, edge deployments, and integrator-ready platforms. You will turn ambitious ideas into repeatable systems tested outside the lab.

Qualifications

• Experience with industrial vision systems and factory automation environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and validate new industrial inspection hardware capabilities across 2D, 3D, and edge compute.
• Scout and evaluate cameras, sensors, lighting, optics, and embedded compute platforms for new use cases.
• Build proof-of-concept rigs to test sensing approaches against real inspection problems.
• Benchmark edge hardware, sensor throughput, latency, memory use, and deployment constraints.
• Support ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, OpenVINO in collaboration with ML and software engineers.
• Develop portable innovation demos and field-ready prototypes.

Skills

Industrial vision systems

Sensing platforms

Edge compute for CV

Python prototyping

System integration

Communication with ML/Software teams

Hardware troubleshooting

Tools

OpenCV

ONNX Runtime

TensorRT

OpenVINO

Camera SDKs

C/C++

Job description

Mindtrace is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Manchester to expand hardware and sensing for its industrial inspection products. You will prototype, validate, and productize new hardware approaches across cameras, sensors, optics, lighting, and edge compute.

The role focuses on moving beyond 2D inspection toward richer sensing, edge deployments, and integrator-ready platforms. You will turn ambitious ideas into repeatable systems tested outside the lab.