The Company: Cognex Corporation
Cognex is the global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision. With over $600 million of cash in the bank and no debt, 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, rewarding, and quirky environment.
The Team
Delivering Cognex ID and Vision Automation Solutions into various Retail/Commercial/Freight Distribution Centers, Parcel & Postal and Airport Baggage Handling Industries is one of the fastest growing segments in Cognex, what we define as our Logistics business. The Logistics Solutions Business Unit is responsible for supporting the logistics market throughout the entire project life cycle, which can include pre-sales system configuration and testing, turnkey solution design and estimation services, project management and integration, installation, commissioning and troubleshooting activities, as well as post installation support to some of the largest global customers in these industries.
Job Summary
The Advanced Customer Engineer (ACE) will be responsible to offer technically advanced support to a wide range of Logistics front line service providers. Possessing advanced and in-depth knowledge, the ACE will define and demonstrate technical best practices, provide the highest levels of both time-sensitive and high-touch support, as well as proactive competence development of direct and indirect employees, contract service providers and customers.
Often engaged in time-sensitive or operationally critical situations, the ACE is responsible to technically support our field service resources and drive timely resolution of situations and reduce the need for additional field resource deployments. The ACE should subsequently identify competence and knowledge gaps in our field service team, analyze product, training and technical omissions in logistics solution delivery, and propose methods and support to drive internal technical efficiency improvements and increase consistency of performance.
The ACE will identify installation and commission standards for logistics solutions for internal and external use, assist in driving procedure development to increase confidence in the competence of internal and external service partners. Additionally, the ACE identifies opportunities that allow field deployment or subsequent support activities to become revenue generating in conjunction with Sales and Project Management.
Essential Functions
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cognex is an equal opportunity employer. Cognex evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.