About the role

Senior Hardware Applications Engineer, Industrial Vision Systems
Location: Boston, MA | Hybrid, 3 Days Per Week Onsite
Relocation Assistance Available
Compensation: $140,000 to $170,000 Total Compensation, Including Base Salary and EquityWe're partnering with a venture-backed AI technology company building advanced computer vision systems for industrial environments. Its technology solves complex inspection and automation challenges for manufacturers operating at scale. They're seeking a Senior Hardware Applications Engineer to design and deploy the physical hardware systems required for reliable computer vision applications. This is a hands-on role for someone who has personally deployed industrial cameras and related hardware in real manufacturing environments. This is not a remote position. Candidates must be located in the Greater Boston area or willing to relocate and work at least three days onsite per week. Relocation assistance is available.
What You'll Do:
  • Design hardware configurations for industrial computer vision deployments
  • Assess manufacturing environments and identify operational, structural, and technical constraints
  • Select industrial cameras, lenses, lighting, mounting systems, GPUs, edge servers, and networking equipment
  • Develop solutions for camera mounts, enclosures, protective housings, and supporting hardware
  • Configure triggering, synchronization, encoders, networking, and edge computing systems
  • Test and validate hardware in pilot and production environments
  • Troubleshoot hardware, camera, alignment, networking, and system-performance issues
  • Create bills of materials, wiring diagrams, configuration documents, and installation procedures
  • Participate in customer site assessments, installations, commissioning, and production validation
  • Partner with computer vision, software, and deployment engineers
Required Experience:
  • 5+ years of professional experience in machine vision, hardware engineering, industrial automation, or systems integration
  • Direct, hands-on experience deploying industrial cameras in manufacturing environments
  • Strong understanding of cameras, lenses, lighting, image acquisition, GPUs, and edge computing
  • Experience evaluating factors such as line speed, vibration, ambient lighting, available space, and mounting constraints
  • Experience designing or implementing mounts, enclosures, and physical hardware configurations
  • Ability to troubleshoot across hardware, networking, cameras, and industrial systems
  • Willingness to travel to customer manufacturing sites when required
Candidates whose experience is limited to academic projects, consumer cameras, theoretical optical work, or software-only computer vision will not be considered.
Nice to Have:
  • Experience with FLIR, Basler, Allied Vision, Teledyne, Cognex, or Keyence systemsPLC, encoder, sensor, robotics, or industrial network integrationNVIDIA GPUs and edge computing platforms
  • Automated inspection or defect-detection systems
  • High-speed manufacturing or production-line experience
Why Join?
  • Own technically challenging industrial deployments
  • Work with advanced AI and computer vision systems
  • Have a direct impact on customer implementations
  • Competitive compensation, equity, and relocation assistance
  • Join a well-funded company during an important stage of growth
Benefits:

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JOB OVERVIEW

Salary

$140,000 to $170,000

Experience level

Lead

Location

East Boston, MA

Occupation

Computer Hardware Engineers

Industry

Electronic Computer Manufacturing

Posted

12 days ago

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