Senior Vision Systems Engineer - Automation & Inspection

Crane Currency Malta Limited; Nashua (NH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Currency in Nashua, NH is seeking a Vision Engineer to lead machine-vision and automated-inspection systems from concept to production.

You will design, validate, and deploy vision solutions, collaborating with engineering, operations, quality, and suppliers, and you will document performance for site handoff.

The role requires a strong background in optics, cameras, lighting, image processing, and hands-on experience building vision applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Software, Computer or Optical Engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, integrating, programming, or supporting machine-vision systems.
• Applied knowledge of lighting, optics, cameras, electronics, image formation, and imaging algorithms.
• Experience defining inspection requirements and evaluating vision-system performance in manufacturing.
• Experience installing, commissioning, testing, validating, troubleshooting, and supporting machine-vision systems in production.
• Ability to assess technical risk, identify potential failure modes or design shortcomings, define mitigations, and establish test strategies.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision-system workstream for assigned technology-transfer projects from requirements definition through stable production and formal site handoff.
• Partner with product, process, quality, and manufacturing stakeholders to define inspection objectives, defect criteria, measurement needs, cycle-time requirements, and acceptance standards.
• Design or specify machine-vision solutions using cameras, lenses, lighting, sensors, electronics, computing hardware, communications, and image-processing methods.
• Configure and integrate vision-system hardware and software with production equipment, controls, data systems, and operator interfaces.
• Develop or modify vision applications, recipes, inspection logic, image-processing algorithms, and supporting software; VB.NET or C# experience is beneficial.
• Plan and execute installation, startup, calibration, FAT, SAT, qualification, and performance-verification activities.
• Conduct technical risk assessments to identify failure modes, detection gaps, false accepts, false rejects, and design limitations; define mitigations and test strategies.
• Troubleshoot image quality, lighting, optics, triggering, communications, software, algorithms, calibration, and equipment-integration issues using structured root-cause analysis.

Skills

Machine vision

Lighting & optics

Cameras & imaging algorithms

Inspection requirements

Risk assessment & mitigation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

VB.NET

C#

Job description

Crane Currency in Nashua, NH is seeking a Vision Engineer to lead machine-vision and automated-inspection systems from concept to production.

You will design, validate, and deploy vision solutions, collaborating with engineering, operations, quality, and suppliers, and you will document performance for site handoff.

The role requires a strong background in optics, cameras, lighting, image processing, and hands-on experience building vision applications.