Senior Engineer, In-Line Vision Systems

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Full Time Holland, MI, US

4 days ago Requisition

LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. (LGESMI) develops and manufactures large lithium-ion polymer batteries and packs for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications. Come join the leader in advanced EV batteries!

Summary:
The Senior Engineer, In-Line Vision Systems is an ESMI-based engineer responsible for providing specialized vision-inspection engineering support to LG Energy Solution and affiliated manufacturing entities throughout North America.

This position supports the setup, integration, commissioning, acceptance testing, production startup, stabilization, troubleshooting, and optimization of in-line vision inspection systems used in lithium-ion battery manufacturing. The Engineer serves as a technical expert in pouch-cell packaging inspection, inspection-recipe development, camera and lighting configuration, image-quality optimization, defect-detection validation, and deep-learning-based inspection technologies.

The Engineer travels to North American manufacturing sites to support new production-line launches, improve inspection accuracy and reliability, reduce false rejects and false accepts, resolve complex vision-system problems, and transfer specialized knowledge to locally hired engineers and technicians

Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced vision-system engineering support to ESMI and other LG Energy Solution or affiliated North American manufacturing entities.
• Lead or support the installation, setup, configuration, integration, commissioning, and production stabilization of in-line vision inspection systems.
• Develop, configure, validate, and optimize inspection recipes for pouch-cell packaging, dimensional, cosmetic, sealing, contamination, and other battery-manufacturing inspections.
• Configure and optimize cameras, lenses, lighting, triggers, image-acquisition parameters, and inspection environments to achieve consistent image quality.
• Establish and validate inspection standards, defect criteria, detection thresholds, measurement tolerances, and pass/fail decision logic.
• Conduct detection-performance studies and validation testing to confirm inspection accuracy, repeatability, reliability, and production readiness.
• Analyze and reduce false rejects and false accepts through recipe tuning, image analysis, hardware optimization, and defect-standard validation.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving vision software, inspection algorithms, cameras, lenses, lighting, sensors, triggers, image acquisition, equipment interfaces, and inspection environments.
• Develop defect datasets and train, validate, deploy, and maintain deep-learning models for scratches, contamination, wrinkles, sealing defects, cosmetic defects, and other inspection applications.
• Support the integration and deployment of vision inspection software, inspection algorithms, measurement functions, and automated production equipment.
• Perform Factory Acceptance Testing and Site Acceptance Testing and document inspection performance, open issues, corrective actions, and acceptance results.
• Support new plant launches, trial production, production ramp-up, model changeovers, and mass-production stabilization.
• Analyze inspection failures, recurring defects, quality escapes, and production interruptions; conduct root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Standardize vision hardware, inspection recipes, defect criteria, operating procedures, and validation methods across supported North American manufacturing sites.
• Develop and maintain inspection specifications, recipe records, validation…