Senior Manager, Computer Vision

About the role

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping manufacturers become more productive, sustainable, and agile. The company is building machine vision and visual inspection into its Automation Control Software portfolio, alongside Studio 5000 Logix Designer, FactoryTalk Optix, and Data Mosaix. This leadership role will oversee the engineering organization that delivers cloud services, edge runtime, front‑end, and the underlying machine‑learning components, while owning roadmap commitments and technical escalation for customer issues. The position reports to the Vice President, Software Engineering and follows a remote work schedule.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a multi‑disciplinary software engineering team spanning cloud, edge, front end, and machine learning.
• Own delivery commitments—scope, sequence, and predictability—and communicate risk and trade‑offs to product and executive stakeholders.
• Drive architectural direction across subsystems and arbitrate cross‑team decisions.
• Manage the second‑level technical escalation path for customer‑impacting issues and feed resolutions back into the product.
• Partner with product management on roadmap definition, feature detail, and release content.
• Set engineering practice standards: review gates, quality bar, evaluation coverage for AI‑assisted change, and throughput measurement.
• Hire, develop, and retain engineering talent, building a technical leadership bench.

Essentials

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States (no visa sponsorship provided).

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software product development, including leading engineers.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience leading software engineering teams that ship and support commercial products.
• Proven track record owning technical architecture decisions across multiple subsystems.
• Background as a hands‑on engineer with retained technical depth.
• Experience with both cloud services and edge/embedded software within the same product.
• Experience running a customer escalation path and translating field issues into engineering priorities.
• Track record building engineering practices—review standards, release quality gates, developer tooling.
• Exposure to industrial automation, machine vision, or other domains where defects have physical‑world consequences.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Flexible work schedule allowing personal‑life balance.

Pay

Base salary ranges from $153,280 – $229,920 USD, with an annual target bonus of 8 % of base salary. Actual compensation will reflect skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

Schedule

This role follows a remote work schedule.