Vision System Development Engineer, GSE Automation, Amazon Leo
About The Position
Amazon Leo is seeking an innovative and solution-oriented System Development Engineer (SysDE II) to join their team. This role focuses on developing innovative solutions and automated pipelines for automation vision inspection and test applications within an active satellite manufacturing facility. The position involves hardware, software, OT, and IT stack development. The engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining automated visual inspection systems and production test software that integrate directly with manufacturing equipment. This includes leveraging machine vision libraries, image processing pipelines, and hardware interfaces to achieve reliable, high-throughput defect detection and end-of-line test execution, ensuring minimal operator intervention and consistent data traceability. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in machine vision or automated optical inspection applications in a manufacturing environment, building test automation frameworks that interface with PLCs, sensors, or mechatronic fixtures, or integrating camera systems and image processing algorithms with industrial control platforms like Ignition SCADA.
Requirements
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing or deploying machine vision systems, automated optical inspection, or image processing applications.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building services using AWS products
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
- Knowledge of database systems and SQL
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing or deploying machine vision systems, automated optical inspection, or image processing applications in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement automated visual inspection systems using machine vision cameras, lighting, and image processing algorithms for production defect detection
- Develop test automation software and frameworks that interface with PLCs, sensors, and mechatronic test fixtures for end-of-line validation
- Build image processing pipelines and classification models to identify defects across varying part geometries, surface conditions, and production rates
- Architect scalable inspection and test system architectures supporting high-throughput manufacturing lines with minimal cycle time impact
- Create monitoring, alarming, and reporting solutions for inspection system health, test yield trends, and defect analytics
- Implement calibration routines, golden sample validation, and statistical process controls ensuring inspection accuracy and repeatability over time
- Maintain technical documentation for test procedures, inspection recipes, and system configuration
- Lead technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis for inspection false calls, test failures, and hardware integration issues affecting production
- Support production operations through test system automation, reducing manual inspection touchpoints and improving throughput reliability
- Drive continuous improvement for inspection accuracy, test coverage, cycle time reduction, and system maintainability
- Collaborate with production, quality, manufacturing engineering, and equipment vendors while managing escalations and coordinating resolution of yield-impacting issues
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
