Industrial Vision & Automation Engineer

The role

You will own industrial vision inspection across production lines, from roadmap and qualification to integration on automated and manual stations. You will turn manual controls into robust inline inspections by working with Industrialization & Automation, Quality, and Production teams.

What you will do

• Build and own the industrial vision roadmap across production lines and defend investments.
• Audit existing cameras and programs to establish baseline escape and false reject rates.
• Develop and deploy vision programs on real parts, tuning optics, lighting, thresholds and Edge Learning tools.
• Integrate vision on automated stations with the automation team.
• Deploy standalone camera programs on manual stations with scripting and small tooling.
• Define and run the qualification framework (IQ/OQ/PQ) and trace inspections into the control plan.
• Maintain a versioned and backed up program library with clear documentation.
• Review rejected images daily with production to separate real defects from false rejects.
• Partner with R&D on design for inspectability.
• Partner with Manufacturing Systems Engineering and IT on data and network handling.

Required qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent, with a strong academic record.
• 2+ years of practical industrial vision experience in a production environment, such as automotive, electronics, aerospace, medtech or a vision integrator.
• Proficiency with at least one industrial vision platform or library.
• Scripting skills.
• Automation exposure to work with a PLC or a robot.
• Manages false rejects and escapes with data.
• Knows that optics and lighting drive the result.
• Curious about assembly (PCBA, solder joints, connectors).
• Able to build a plan and a standard from scratch in a greenfield environment.
• Able to defend an investment case.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in French and English.
• Security clearance may be required.

About the company

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is expanding its teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.