Senior Engineer – Research and Development – CVML

Vermeer Corporation • Ames, IA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Vermeer equips customers doing important work around the world, focusing on managing natural resources, connecting people, and feeding and fueling communities. The company is global, driven by innovation, and growing, operating with a caring culture, agility, customer focus, and stewardship of resources. This Senior Engineer role is for a disruptive innovator passionate about applying new technology to real-world customer needs. The position involves analyzing, innovating, designing, developing, and testing proof of concepts for stakeholder evaluation. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, hands-on team environment, using creativity to solve both articulated and unarticulated customer needs.

Requirements

• Four-year college degree in Agricultural, Computer, Electrical, Industrial or Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of twelve years' experience.
• Proficient in Solidworks or equivalent CAD tool.
• Proficient in gathering and evaluating data logs.
• Familiarity with robotics, perception sensors and control system theory.
• Understands product development activities to release successful products from a performance standpoint.
• Educational background in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or Data Science.
• Hands-on experience in embedded software development, robotics perception, and computer vision.
• Experience in developing and training machine learning models using frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, including skills in hyperparameter tuning.
• Familiarity with machine learning operations (MLOps) practices and tools like MLflow.
• Experience within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including Databricks.

Nice To Haves

• Proficient in C++, Python and Mathlab a plus.
• Proficient in Design of Experiment preferred.
• Proficiency with image labeling, curation, and visualization tools such as V7 Darwin, Voxel Fifty-One Teams, and Foxglove.
• Experience managing high-volume image datasets within an end-to-end MLOps development pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Perform research on emerging markets and intellectual property and analyze what and how innovative projects could be utilized within assigned product segments.
• Provide technical leadership while mentoring less-experienced engineers.
• Innovate and design profitable solutions for the agricultural and construction industry. Determine the articulated and unarticulated needs of global customers by conducting voice of customer.
• Create proof of concept to validate the idea for further evaluation by the stakeholders.
• Demonstrate to team members, customers or dealers the product needs to better define the product.
• Fosters dealer or stakeholder relationships to research unidentified needs and to perform field validation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior