West Coast Senior Solutions Engineer - AI Vision

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

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