Senior Engineer, Machine Learning, Vision

Rockwell Automation; Arizona; On-site; USD 115,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k

Paid Time off

Parental and Caregiver Leave

Flexible Work Schedule

Job summary

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader driving analytics and machine vision within its Automation Control Software portfolio. You will own end-to-end ML engineering for self-learning inspection tools, including training, labeling pipelines, and model deployment to production.

The role emphasizes real ownership, latency optimization on edge hardware, and collaboration with teams using GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Claude in a governed AI workflow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• 5+ years in software product development environment.
• CS or Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Deep experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow and modern CV architectures.
• Edge inference and model optimization including ONNX, TensorRT, quantization.
• Experience building dataset and labeling pipelines; handle label noise.
• Familiar with evaluation-driven workflows: offline metrics and monitoring.
• Exposure to industrial automation or machine vision environments.
• Hands-on ML in Python; deploying models to production and maintaining them.

Responsibilities

• Implement and ship ML capabilities from model training to user-facing configuration.
• Build training, labeling, and dataset management pipelines.
• Develop evaluation suites and regression tests to gate changes.
• Tune models and inference pipelines for edge latency and throughput.
• Debug model behavior with real customer data and improve datasets.
• Participate in design, code, and model reviews; advance ML engineering practices.

Skills

Python programming

ML engineering

Dataset pipelines

Model evaluation

Edge inference

Latency optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Bachelor's or advanced degree in CS/EE

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

ONNX

TensorRT

Job description

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Position Summary: Rockwell Automation is building FT Analytics Vision machine vision and visual inspection into the Automation Control Software portfolio, alongside Studio 5000 Logix Designer, FactoryTalk Optix, and Data Mosaix. You will implement the machine learning capabilities customers actually touch - the self-learning inspection tools, color and measurement tools, and the training workflows that let a plant engineer teach the system a new defect without a data scientist in the room.

This is an implementation-heavy role with real ownership. You will take a modeling approach from prototype to a shipped, monitored feature, and you will own its accuracy and latency in production.

You will build in an AI-first engineering environment - coding agents running inside a harness we own, evals gating AI-generated changes, GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Claude in the daily loop, and MCP-based tooling that lets agents reach real build, test, and telemetry systems under human-in-the-loop review. On this team that extends into the model workflow itself: agents scaffold experiments and triage dataset failures, and an accuracy regression suite gates a model change the same way a test suite gates a code change.

Your Responsibilities

• Implement and ship machine learning capabilities in the product, from model training pipeline through the user-facing configuration workflow.
• Build and maintain the training, labeling, and dataset management pipelines the product and the field depend on.
• Develop evaluation suites and accuracy regression tests that gate model changes before release.
• Tune models and inference pipelines to meet latency and throughput targets on edge hardware.
• Debug model behavior against real customer data and turn field failures into dataset and evaluation improvements.
• Participate in design, code, and model reviews, and contribute to the team's ML engineering practices.

The Essentials - You Will Have

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Years of Relevant Work Experience

The Preferred - You Might Also Have

• Typically requires 5+ years of related experience in a software product development environment.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Depth in PyTorch or TensorFlow and in modern computer vision architectures.
• Experience with edge inference and model optimization - ONNX, TensorRT, quantization.
• Experience building dataset and labeling pipelines, including handling class imbalance and label noise.
• Familiarity with evaluation-driven workflows: offline metrics, regression suites, and production monitoring.
• Exposure to industrial automation, machine vision, or manufacturing quality systems.
• Hands-on experience building and training machine learning models in Python
• Experience deploying a model into a production system and supporting it afterward

What We Offer

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

For this role, the Base Salary Compensation is 114,720.00 - 172,080.00 USD Annual with an annual target bonus of 5% of base salary. Our benefits for the US can be found here. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

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