Vision Systems Engineer

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/Vet/Disab

Location: NH, Nashua

Department: Engineering

Join Crane Currency as a Vision Engineer in Nashua, New Hampshire
, and take the lead in bringing advanced machine-vision and automated inspection technologies from concept to production.

Crane Currency is a premier industrial technology company and a pioneer in currency manufacturing and advanced micro-optics technology for securing physical products. Yes, chances are you have our product in your wallet right now! Our sophisticated equipment and software leverage proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies. Around the world, our customers trust us to anticipate their needs with innovative, reliable, and high-quality currency & authentication solutions and services—just as they have for generations.

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As a Vision Engineer within Technology Transfer, you will lead the design, deployment, commissioning, validation, and stabilization of machine-vision and automated-inspection systems across manufacturing sites. You will translate product and process inspection requirements into reliable vision solutions that meet safety, quality, detection, throughput, and operational-readiness requirements. Working closely with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Manufacturing, site technical teams, suppliers, and integrators, you will resolve complex hardware, software, optics, lighting, calibration, and application challenges.

You will also document system performance and build the receiving site's capability to operate and support each solution following project completion.

• Own the vision-system workstream for assigned technology-transfer projects from requirements definition through stable production and formal site handoff.
• Partner with product, process, quality, and manufacturing stakeholders to define inspection objectives, defect criteria, measurement needs, cycle-time requirements, and acceptance standards.
• Design or specify machine-vision solutions using appropriate cameras, lenses, lighting, sensors, electronics, computing hardware, communications, and image-processing methods.
• Configure and integrate vision-system hardware and software with production equipment, controls, data systems, and operator interfaces.
• Develop or modify vision applications, recipes, inspection logic, image-processing algorithms, and supporting software;  or C# experience is beneficial.
• Plan and execute installation, startup, calibration, FAT, SAT, qualification, and performance-verification activities.
• Conduct technical risk assessments to identify failure modes, detection gaps, false accepts, false rejects, and design limitations; define mitigations and test strategies.
• Troubleshoot image quality, lighting, optics, triggering, communications, software, algorithms, calibration, and equipment-integration issues using structured root-cause analysis.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Optical Engineering or commensurate experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing, integrating, programming, or supporting machine‑vision systems.
• Applied knowledge of lighting, optics, cameras, electronics, image formation, and imaging algorithms.
• Experience defining inspection requirements, selecting components, and evaluating vision‑system performance in manufacturing applications.
• Experience installing, commissioning, testing, validating, troubleshooting, and supporting machine‑vision or automated‑inspection systems in production.
• Ability to assess technical risk, identify potential failure modes or design shortcomings, define…