Purpose of the position within Cognex

The purpose of this position is to work together in a team to develop system software components and participate in all related activities targeting programmable vision systems and their supplementary products. In this role you will contribute to the platform layer of the software stack, serving a variety of products in Cognex’s advanced machine vision portfolio for factory automation and logistics applications.

Responsibilities

• Work in the Software Platforms organization, delivering and maintaining system software components for a broad set of internal clients
• Develop software primarily in C++, writing clean, modular, performant and cross-platform code (ARM / x86, Linux / Windows). Strive for the highest quality, while avoiding the creation of technical debt
• Collaborate in a diverse engineering community distributed across sites and time-zones, delivering products that make up of a layered software stack
• Apply proven design principles and modern guidelines for creating secure software components, conformant with international IOT cybersecurity standards, such as IEC 62443
• Use sophisticated tooling to analyze, debug, track down and fix issues or vulnerabilities emerging in your domain.
• Evaluate, adopt and integrate open source libraries as suited for your deliveries
• Participate in code reviews across teams and codebases, help catching issues early

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Software development
• Strong background in software engineering best practices and design principles
• Deep understanding of the C++ language, tooling and technology stack
• Decent comfort level in CMake, Linux and Python
• Fluency in Hungarian and English
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in distributed teams
• Ability to use Git version control in advanced ways (clean history, rebase-workflow, etc.)
• Experience with any of the following technologies is a plus: Embedded Linux (ARM), Yocto / Bitbake, Conan.io, WSL, Docker, TeamCity, Kotlin, TrustZone / OP-TEE, Secure Boot, Video4Linux, C#, Golang, pybind, Industrial Network Protocols, Microsoft 365 tools)

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