Senior Research Engineer - Measurement / Inspection

Location: On-site in Woodbury, Minnesota, United States, at least four days per week. Travel may include up to 10% domestic or international travel. Relocation assistance may be authorized. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employment visa sponsorship.

Salary: $124,127–$151,710 annual compensation, including base pay and variable incentive pay if eligible.

Company

hirify.global develops products, technologies, and materials across diverse industrial and scientific applications.

What you will do

• Develop optical inspection and metrology methods for optics-related parts and advanced product and process applications.
• Design, build, and validate benchtop inspection systems for detecting, characterizing, and quantifying defects and quality attributes.
• Apply optical engineering, imaging, and machine vision principles using transmitted and reflected light, bright field, dark field, polarization, and structured illumination.
• Create image acquisition, analysis, and data interpretation workflows to improve defect sensitivity, repeatability, and method capability.
• Partner with R&D, process and product development, quality, manufacturing, and equipment teams to define requirements and scale solutions into production.
• Design experiments, perform measurement systems analysis and method validation, document results, support equipment projects, and troubleshoot inspection and quality issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in science or engineering plus at least five years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D. in optical engineering, physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or imaging science.
• Experience in optical inspection, optical metrology, machine vision, imaging systems, glass characterization, or related technical work.
• Knowledge of illumination design, lens and camera selection, resolution, contrast, polarization, depth of field, and signal-to-noise optimization.
• Experience with experimental design, data analysis, technical problem solving, method validation, and inspection of manufactured parts, materials, or optical systems.
• Experience with machine vision systems, industrial cameras, optics, lighting, image processing, and production inspection equipment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear technical documentation and communication with cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Ph.D. research focused on optical inspection, optical metrology, machine vision, imaging science, or a related field.
• Experience supporting capital equipment projects, vendor interactions, acceptance criteria, and equipment startup.
• Experience with Python, OpenCV, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Minitab, Zemax, or equivalent tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with multidisciplinary R&D, manufacturing, quality, product development, and equipment teams.
• Support for technical rigor, continuous improvement, environmental health and safety, and applicable quality systems.
• Benefits may include medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings and flexible spending accounts, disability and life insurance, paid absences, and retirement benefits.
• Full-time US employees receive an employee agreement covering confidential information, trade secrets, conflicts of interest, and inventions.