Senior Integration Engineer – AI-Driven Manufacturing Vision

Medtronic; Fridley (MN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic in Minnesota is seeking a Senior Integration Engineer to accelerate AI-enabled Visual Process Monitoring deployments across manufacturing sites. You will onboard machines, vision systems, and OT connectivity into the AMI ecosystem, enabling scalable data collection and real-time insights.

Collaborating with Computer Vision and platform engineers, you’ll implement reusable deployment patterns, validate integrations, and drive continuous improvements while traveling to sites as needed

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2+ years deploying solutions across multiple manufacturing sites or operational environments.
• 2+ years experience collecting operational, process, machine‑state, and image‑based data from manufacturing assets.
• 1 year experience connecting OT systems to enterprise software platforms and data infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Onboard machines, vision systems, and manufacturing processes into the AMI platform.
• Assess equipment to collect image data, process data, machine state information, and context for AI-driven monitoring.
• Configure and deploy AMI data collection infrastructure, image workflows, metadata pipelines, and connectivity services.
• Implement, enhance, and support reusable integration patterns connecting cameras, PLCs, MES, historians, databases, and equipment.
• Configure Ignition gateways, tag structures, data models, scripts, and visualization components for manufacturing intelligence workflows.
• Establish connectivity using industrial protocols including OPC-UA, Ethernet/IP, MQTT, Modbus, Profinet.
• Collaborate with CV and platform engineers to ensure systems support image acquisition, metadata capture, model execution, monitoring, and visualization.
• Develop new integration approaches for previously unsupported equipment and processes to leverage AMI.
• Convert site-specific integrations into reusable deployment patterns and reference architectures.
• Identify opportunities to automate deployment, onboarding, and validation to speed up deployments.
• Troubleshoot hardware, software, networking, automation, and data flow issues impacting deployment and production.
• Create technical documentation, deployment playbooks, integration standards, and training materials.
• Coach site engineers on AMI capabilities, integration patterns, and deployment methodologies.
• Support multiple concurrent VPM deployments, improving scalability and user experience.

Skills

Manufacturing integration

Machine vision

OT connectivity

Cross-site deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Ignition

OPC-UA

Ethernet/IP

Job description

Medtronic in Minnesota is seeking a Senior Integration Engineer to accelerate AI-enabled Visual Process Monitoring deployments across manufacturing sites. You will onboard machines, vision systems, and OT connectivity into the AMI ecosystem, enabling scalable data collection and real-time insights.

Collaborating with Computer Vision and platform engineers, you’ll implement reusable deployment patterns, validate integrations, and drive continuous improvements while traveling to sites as needed