Senior Software Engineer, Vision & AI Platforms

Jobverse.io; Wilmington (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Onto Innovation in the United States seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Inspection Business Unit to develop software for advanced inspection platforms, leveraging machine learning, image processing, and optics.

You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to deliver reliable, scalable code, design algorithms, and mentor junior engineers while staying current with research in machine vision.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine the full Onto inspection platform model: optics, motion, electronics, imaging, and software.
• Translate customer problems into well-scoped tasks across subsystem boundaries.
• Zoom from system-level architecture to databases, performance, hardware, GPUs, and GUIs.
• Participate in New Product Development with hardware, application, TPMs, and PMs.
• Apply ML, image processing, CV, math, and optics to engineering algorithms.
• Develop optical imaging modeling/calibration and image segmentation or detection.
• Write, test, and debug software for reliability; optimize for performance.
• Lead requirement analysis, architecture, production code, and testing plans.
• Participate in design/code reviews with systems engineers and developers.
• Leverage AI coding agents to accelerate work while keeping architecture ownership.
• Stay current with research in machine vision, image processing, ML, AI engineering.
• Document software designs, rationale, and troubleshooting steps.
• Mentor teammates at senior levels in systems thinking.
• Improve team workflows and tooling, including AI-assisted practices.

Job description

Onto Innovation in the United States seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Inspection Business Unit to develop software for advanced inspection platforms, leveraging machine learning, image processing, and optics.

You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to deliver reliable, scalable code, design algorithms, and mentor junior engineers while staying current with research in machine vision.