Hardware Development Engineer-Sight Vertical
Core
Hardware engineer owning the hardware backbone for Ford's manufacturing intelligence products, including cameras, sensors, and edge compute devices for AI/ML anomaly detection.
Role type
Senior individual contributor hardware development engineer
Builds
Camera, sensor, and signal-acquisition hardware for factory floor deployment
Domain
Automotive manufacturing, industrial automation, computer vision
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Camera specification, sensor selection, signal acquisition, BOM management, vendor qualification, plant-floor environmental analysis, edge compute integration
Preferred skills
Industrial controls, regulatory certification, fleet management, international travel
Technologies
Cognex, industrial vision hardware, edge compute devices
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end camera specification for vision inspection stations, evaluate and qualify camera vendors, define and maintain hardware bill-of-materials standards, own end-to-end specification for sensing and signal-acquisition hardware, evaluate and qualify sensor vendors
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
