Senior Solutions Engineer, West Coast

Rapta, Inc; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rapta, Inc. in Portland, OR seeks a Senior Solutions Engineer to lead west coast ramp of our vision-based AI systems in live manufacturing environments.

This full-time, customer-facing role focuses on post-sale delivery, owning the technical success of customers and traveling to facilities nationwide, with a home base at our Lake Oswego HQ. You will collaborate with engineering and customer success, train operators, engineers, and plant staff, and feed learnings back to product and deployment

Qualifications

• 8+ years in field applications, systems, or deployment engineering in manufacturing.
• Hands-on machine vision experience on live production lines.
• Ability to travel ~50% to customer sites west of the Rockies.
• Excellence in technical communication with plant operators and leadership.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Fluency with Linux environments and shell usage.
• Experience integrating PLCs, MES/ERP, and factory networks.
• Strong troubleshooting on customer floors under production pressure.
• Knowledge of calibration, metrology, or dimensional inspection concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead on-site training and solutions identification for Rapta vision robotic inspection cells.
• Integrate with customer hardware, PLCs, machine controls, and MES/ERP systems.
• Configure, tune, and validate AI inspection models against real customer parts and processes for accuracy and cycle-time in production
• Serve as the technical point of contact through deployment, coordinating with engineering, and driving to production acceptance.
• Train customer operators and plant staff to run and trust the system after handoff.
• Provide field learnings back to product and engineering and build deployment runbooks and acceptance documentation.

Skills

Field applications/deployment

Machine vision

On-site troubleshooting

Technical communication

Travel 50%

US citizenship

Linux

Networking fundamentals

Python scripting

Calibration/metrology

Job description

Senior Solutions Engineer - West Coast

Full-Time Position | Portland, Oregon

About Us

Rapta is revolutionizing precision US manufacturing with a Manufacturing Intelligence Platform trusted by the nation's top defense primes. Backed by top investors and growing rapidly, we're a Portland-based team building computer vision and robotics technology that keeps America's most critical production lines running. If you want to do meaningful work at the intersection of AI and advanced manufacturing, we'd love to meet you.

Position Overview

We're seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Engineer to lead the west coast ramp of our vision-based AI systems in live manufacturing environments. This is a full-time, customer-facing role focused on post-sale delivery — owning the technical success of our customers. You'll work directly with our engineering and customer success teams, and the role carries extensive travel to customer facilities across the U.S., with a home base at our Lake Oswego headquarters.

What You'll Do

• Lead on-site training and solutions identification for Rapta vision robotic inspection cells.

• Integrate with customer hardware, PLCs, machine controls, and MES/ERP systems.

• Configure, tune, and validate AI inspection models against real customer parts and processes for accuracy and cycle-time in production

• Serve as the technical point of contact through deployment, coordinating with engineering, and driving to production acceptance.

• Train our customer operators, quality engineers, and plant staff so they can run and trust the system after handoff

• Feed field learnings back to product and engineering, and build repeatable deployment runbooks and acceptance documentation

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of professional experience in field applications, systems, or deployment engineering, with substantial hands‑on time in manufacturing or industrial environments

• Deep, practical machine vision experience — lighting, optics, camera selection, calibration, and image acquisition on a live production line

• Strong troubleshooting instincts and the composure to solve problems on a customer's floor under production pressure

• Excellence in technical communication — able to work credibly with plant operators, quality engineers, and program leadership alike

• Willingness and ability to travel extensively (50%) to customer sites west of the Rockies.

• Must be a U.S. citizen

Required Technical Skills

• Hands‑on expertise deploying and integrating industrial vision or automation systems in a production environment

• Proficiency integrating with industrial control systems — PLCs, machine controls, MES/ERP, and factory networks

• Fluency operating in Linux environments — comfortable in the shell, reading logs, and reasoning about process, network, and filesystem behavior

• Solid grasp of networking fundamentals for on‑premises and air‑gapped deployments

• Scripting or configuration skills (Python or equivalent) for system setup, integration, and troubleshooting

• Strong grasp of calibration, metrology, or dimensional inspection concepts

Location Requirements

Candidates local to the Portland, Oregon metro area will only be considered for this role.

Equal Opportunity

Rapta is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.