Student Worker / Internship Software Engineering

About Us:

Cognex is the global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision, with annual revenue approaching $1 Billion.  We are a financially strong international company with a culture that maintains the fast-paced, creative environment of a startup.  Our employees, proudly called “Cognoids,” take their work seriously but don't take themselves seriously.  Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance, and hard work in a fun and rewarding environment.  We value in-person team collaboration, while offering remote workplace flexibility up to two days a week depending on the role.

Job Summary:

Ready for the job that challenges and encourages you to get the best out of yourself? Do you feel at home in a highly innovative R&D environment? Then join our team at Cognex!

• Work as part of one of the fastest growing and most successful companies in the industry with a double-digit growth year after year for more than the last decade. This growth translates into new challenges, and the option to maybe lead one of our growing teams.
• Join a warm, informal and personable culture with monthly events and quarterly activities to strengthen the team.
• We have an on-site gym for all our employees, a community of active runners, and other sport activities.
• Join your colleagues in regular social outings as a team.
• Based on your work experience we’re offering opportunities ranging from a six-month internship with subsequent Master thesis, up to positions for principal software engineers eager to change our architecture.

Just some loose terms to show that we are buzzword-proof: multi-national development teams, heterogeneous multi-core system, real-time applications, industry 4.0. Sounds exciting, right?

About you:

Our ideal candidate is a pragmatic software professional with a can-do attitude who shares the enthusiasm for learning and applying any new development that helps to keep our software platform state of the art. Here's a list of some of the things we pay attention to in our hiring process:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field desired
• Work experience from student jobs, open source projects or other projects desired
• Experience in programming required. Experience in C, C++, python or C# code highly desired
• Verbal and written fluency in English required
• Interest or project work experience desired with build systems & test frameworks, networking protocols or static code analysis
• Scrum, clean code, test development, bug tracking, UML / documentation tools
• High energy and motivated learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good presentation, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills

If you recognize yourself in what is written above, we would love to discuss your ambitions.

Potential work areas:

• Ensure a robust and high-quality product by developing test automation
• Create and improve software engineering tools
• Reproduce software bugs
• Create documentation & Manual testing