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# Machine Vision Applications Engineer, San Francisco

- **Company:** Overview Corporation
- **Location:** United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Vision, Image Quality, Software Tools, Coax, Hardware Asset Management
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=bcdba32d678f31b6

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience selecting and configuring lighting, lenses, and cameras to image parts for inspection or measurement.
 * Experience running imaging trials, feasibility studies, or proof-of-concept testing on customer or production samples in a lab or demo environment.
 * Working knowledge of optical trade-offs: lens selection, field of view, working distance, depth of field, and resolution.
 * Comfortable working directly with hardware, running your own experiments, and solving problems independently.
 * Able to document findings clearly and explain technical trade-offs to customers and internal teams.
 * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate, and able to work primarily from our SF office.

Strong Preferences

 * Experience imaging difficult parts: reflective, specular, transparent, dark, or low-contrast surfaces.
 * Experience with advanced lighting techniques: dome, dark field, backlight, coaxial, polarized, or structured lighting.
 * Experience with telecentric optics and precision measurement.
 * Customer-facing technical work: demos, application support, or on-site troubleshooting.
 * Experience troubleshooting inspection performance in production: false rejects, missed defects, image quality variation.
 * Familiarity with traditional machine vision software tools (Cognex, Keyence, Matrox, Halcon, Dalsa).

## Description

* Volume and variety: A growing stream of customer samples across automotive, aerospace, and consumer manufacturing means you see more imaging problems in a year here than most engineers see in five.
 * Your findings travel: What you learn in the lab shapes hardware decisions, deployment approaches, and what we tell customers is possible.
 * Room to grow into it: This is a mid-level role with a clear path to becoming the technical voice on imaging as the lab and the team scale.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

 * Imaging feasibility: Run trials on incoming customer samples to determine whether and how an inspection can be imaged reliably.
 * Lighting and optics selection: Choose and configure lighting, lenses, cameras, filters, and geometry for each application, including the parts that fight back.
 * Lab ownership: Set up and run the SF lab: test standards, hardware inventory, sample handling, and how results get recorded.
 * Proof-of-concept testing: Build and document POCs that give Sales and Applications a defensible answer on what the system can and cannot do.
 * Image quality troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve image quality problems that drive false rejects, missed defects, and inconsistent results.
 * Hardware evaluation: Test new cameras, lenses, and lighting and recommend what belongs in our stack.
 * Findings and documentation: Write up what worked, what did not, and why, so the next engineer facing the same part does not start over.