Vision Senior Architect (m/f)

MAIN OBJECTIVES - Anticipate market trends in vision science and translate them into core technologies and platform solutions to further secure Cohu's inspection business leadership - Be a referent and propose new ideas to the Engineering Vision Team to any new and innovative challenge they could face - Propose new vision solutions to any challenge that could be raised by customers RESPONSIBILITIES - Participate, in collaboration with the WW NVcore Vision Manager and Specialists to the development of new inspections and vision capabilities - Conceptualize and design cost efficient, innovative and usable in most Cohu products vision solutions - Perform technology scouting, technology “forecasting” and identification of emerging vision technologies - Assess new vision technology bricks to decide the need and the strategy of know-how acquisition - Conduct studies and trials in the vision science domain - Investigate with PMM group and vision Cohu teams the best vision solution to integrate in all Cohu products to answer the market requirements and trends ESSENTIAL QUALITY EXPECTATIONS - Proactively identify opportunities for machine and system improvements with vision solutions - Provide added value to our system with adding new vision systems or adding capability to existing vision solutions - Provide structured and clear reports on his projects - Team spirit to evolve in an innovation team on a particular topic - Openmind for new ideas and pluri-technology investigations AUTHORITY - Member of the Innovation Team in Switzerland under the Innovation Manager (T.Eme, Direction) REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS - Proven experience in Vision Inspection and Metrology sciences - Proven experience in vision system conception - Wide knowledge of vision elements (camera, lighting, lenses, optical system, electronics, vision software and calibration process) - Management skills to coordinate different engineering department members around one topic/project - Capable to present in a synthetic and understandable way an experimental trial result - Fluent in French and English - Position based in Switzerland with travel time up to 20% This document matches as much as possible the job activities but is not an exhaustive list. The candidate may be asked to conduct other tasks if required up to his knowledge and skills.