Vision Integration Engineer, Factory Vision Platform
Tesla · Fremont, CA · 1 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$124k–$186k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- Install, configure, commission, and maintain industrial vision systems including cameras, lighting, optics, and mounting hardware across factory environments
- Perform camera calibration (intrinsic/extrinsic parameters, lens distortion, multi-camera geometry) to ensure system accuracy and repeatability
- Develop and optimize vision algorithms for defect detection, inspection, and anomaly detection using Python, C++, C#, or HALCON
- Perform on-site data collection campaigns, ensuring proper image capture, labeling, and dataset curation for model training and validation
- Build, train, and iterate on computer vision models using the factory vision platform
- Drive vision system reliability and uptime, tracking key metrics including cycle time, and quality yields
- Troubleshoot hardware and software integration issues across cameras, networking, compute modules, and platform connectivity
- Collaborate with ML engineers to define data requirements and validate model performance in production
- Work with process and production teams to identify new inspection use cases and translate operational needs into deployments
What You'll Bring
- Degree in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with industrial vision systems in a manufacturing environment
- Strong knowledge of optics, lighting, and hardware selection, cameras, lenses, illumination, and image acquisition components
- Understanding of camera calibration: lens distortion, intrinsic/extrinsic parameters, multi-camera geometry
- Experience with image processing fundamentals (enhancement, thresholding, feature extraction) and computer vision concepts (object detection, segmentation, anomaly detection)
- Experience in developing vision software and algorithms and performing data analysis using languages and tools such as C#, Python, or HALCON
- Experience with model training workflows, dataset preparation, annotation, training, and evaluation
- Experience with linescan camera systems
- Strong troubleshooting skills and effective cross-functional communication in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Medical plans
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution
- 401(k) with employer match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Other financial benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time
- Paid Holidays
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
Expected Compensation
$124,000 - $186,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits