Cognex
Senior Product Designer – 3D Applications
Natick, Massachusetts · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
AngularDeep LearningData VisualizationComputer VisionFigmaUX DesignDesign SystemsRoboticsCommunication
About the role
- Cognex's advanced AI enabled vision products help companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high quality products at an affordable price.
- Many of these applications involve 3D vision systems that capture point cloud data, depth maps, and surface geometry to enable precise measurement, robot guidance, and spatial inspection in complex factory environments..
- Work‑from‑home days are Tuesday and Friday, with in‑office days on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple projects through all aspects of the design cycle (requirements gathering, brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, testing, iterating, etc.)
- Work with our 4-person design team to document, maintain, and architect the Cognex design system based on the Angular Material library.
- Design systematic, reusable components using the atomic design philosophy.
- Participate in design reviews with our design team and other stakeholders, iteratively honing the design and implementation of the whole team's UIs.
- Collaborate with engineers and product marketers to ensure that the implementation of your designs result in a delightful and cohesive overall product experience.
- Create and maintain internal documentation for your designs and evangelize their use across the company.
- Shape the design culture within our design team and at Cognex generally.
- 4-8 years of product design / UX experience, designing web-based products that were built and shipped to real users.
- Experience deploying, maintaining, and improving a design system across a large organization.
- Willingness to propose and fight for bold designs
Requirements
- Experience with Figma, or similar design software
- You are not expected to author code for this role.
Nice to have
- Bachelors or Master's degree in HCI, a related discipline, or a related technical field.
- Cognex believes in fair and equitable pay.
- Additional Job Description
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Cognex is an equal opportunity employer.
- Proficiency and willingness to communicate in English
- Nice to have: Bachelors or Master's degree in HCI, a related discipline, or a related technical field.
Compensation
- A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 120,000 USD - 200,000 USD.
- In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a sales incentive plan.
Benefits
- Nice to have: Experience designing for AI and deep learning systems.
- Minimum education and work experience required:
Company info
- Cognex is the world's leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing automation.
- We are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable work environment, guided by our "Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast" culture, which celebrates employee innovation, determination, and dedication in a dynamic, fun, and distinctive atmosphere.
- We are working on a hybrid schedule: three days in the office and two days from home.
- The UX Design team at Cognex was formed 3 years ago and has been growing in strategic importance to reflect the Company's focus on providing "advanced machine vision, made easy" to our customers.
- We design web-based interfaces for Cognex's diverse suite of enterprise B2B products and services.
- Our UIs are atomically consumed by Cognex product teams to develop and maintain a unified look & feel across multiple workflows and product lines.
- We work closely with multi-national teams of deep learning researchers, computer vision engineers, hardware designers, systems integrators, and product marketers.
- We strive to understand the underlying technology, including its limitations and opportunities, and we then use that understanding to define rich user experiences for complex computer vision tools.
- We are actively building up our design system and rolling it out across our product lines.
- There is a lot of exciting upcoming design work at Cognex, and you get to shape that future.
- three days in the office and two days from home.
Equal opportunity
- Cognex evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
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