Manufacturing Engineer – Vision Systems (CBS)

The Manufacturing Engineer – Vision Systems is responsible for working in collaboration with NPI, Quality, Automation, and Operations teams to lead process ownership for machine vision, automated optical inspection (AOI), and AI-enabled inspection systems used in high-speed cable assemblies and backplane systems — supporting NPI, process transfer, production ramp, and stable mass production.

Responsibilities:

• Own manufacturing readiness and ongoing performance for assigned inspection processes, including camera and lens selection, lighting, optics, image acquisition, fixturing, algorithms, defect libraries, acceptance criteria, equipment integration, validation, and documentation.
• Define, develop, validate, release, and maintain inspection recipes, camera positions, field of view, resolution, lighting methods, image-processing parameters, defect classifications, and thresholds for connectors, cable routing, terminals, welds, labels, shielding, and assembly presence.
• Lead design-for-inspection reviews focused on feature visibility, contrast, access, orientation, tolerance definition, defect detectability, and fixture repeatability.
• Specify, qualify, install, and support cameras, lenses, lighting, vision controllers, motion systems, robotics, fixtures, reject mechanisms, and poka-yoke devices; coordinate suppliers, FAT/SAT, calibration, and preventive maintenance.
• Develop DOE and validation plans to confirm detection capability, repeatability, reproducibility, false reject and false accept rates, and process capability.
• Provide hands-on engineering support during EVT, DVT, PVT, pilot, ramp, and mass production builds, including system setup, recipe development, image tuning, false-call reduction, and rapid corrective-action closure.
• Lead investigation and correction of missed defects, false calls, image instability, lighting variation, fixture misalignment, software faults, and equipment downtime using 8D, 5-Why, Fishbone, DOE, and statistical methods.