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These industry leaders offer trusted brands and innovative technologies in the design, manufacture, and service of high-performance converting and packaging machinery for the tissue, nonwovens, hygiene, bag-converting, mailing, and printing industries.Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.Job Description:\nSenior Leader - Vision Systems Engineering\nThe Senior Leader - Vision Systems Engineering plans, directs, and oversees the Electrical, Software, and Imaging AI Engineering teams supporting BWCS's Vision product lines. The role's central mandate is to modernize and consolidate several legacy inspection product lines into a single, unified product portfolio, built on a current software stack with GPU-accelerated AI at its core, to deliver the world's leading web inspection systems.\nThe position partners closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional leaders to align resources and execution with business strategy. It is structured as a development pathway to Director level within 2-3 years, with increasing ownership of strategy, budget, and organizational leadership.\nSupervisory Responsibilities\nRecruit, hire, onboard, and develop engineering staff across hardware, software, and imaging AI disciplines.\nBuild the next layer of technical leads and people managers.\nManage team workload, priorities, and engineering backlogs.\nProvide timely, constructive performance evaluations and ensure compliance with BW policies and procedures.\nDuties and Responsibilities\nLead the consolidation of legacy vision product lines into a unified platform architecture, defining a common hardware, software, and AI foundation and a phased migration plan for the installed base.\nDrive adoption of a modern software stack and GPU-driven AI model integration across the portfolio, replacing fragmented legacy codebases and rule-based inspection.\nOwn the technology roadmap and end-to-end system architecture: line-scan and area-scan cameras, optics, illumination, acquisition, compute, and integration with machine controls.\nDirect development of AI-based defect detection, classification, and root-cause identification on films, nonwovens, paper, and printed substrates.\nEstablish disciplined processes for image data collection, labeling, model training, validation, deployment, and field performance monitoring.\nPartner with Product and Project Management to prioritize work, allocate resources, and support cost analysis, resource planning, and schedules.\nEnsure delivery within budget and against monthly financial and operational commitments.\nLead Design Reviews across vision hardware, software, and AI model development.\nManage design partners and vendors (camera, optics, lighting, GPU compute, AI tooling) for roadmap execution, obsolescence management, and order fulfillment.\nEstablish engineering standards, security practices, and development processes across the unified portfolio.\nPartner with manufacturing, supply chain, and field service to support customer satisfaction and installed-base migration.\nProvide technical expertise to executive leadership and customers; stay current on machine vision and industrial AI trends.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nRequired Skills and Abilities\nStrong results orientation with a sense of urgency.\nProven leadership of multi-disciplinary engineering teams.\nTrack record consolidating or re-platforming multiple legacy products onto a common architecture.\nExcellent communication skills, including explaining technical trade-offs to executive and customer audiences.\nExpert knowledge of machine vision system design: cameras, optics, illumination, and industrial interfaces (GigE Vision, CoaXPress, Camera Link, GenICam).\nProven delivery of web or substrate inspection systems for continuous processes.\nDeep expertise in imaging AI for industrial defect detection, including detection, segmentation, and anomaly detection models for limited-defect datasets.\nHands-on experience with GPU-accelerated inference at production line speeds (CUDA, TensorRT, ONNX), plus OpenCV, PyTorch and/or TensorFlow, and YOLO.\nSoftware knowledge including C, C++, C#, Python, embedded, Windows, Linux, Git/GitHub; experience leading multi-developer projects using AI-assisted development.\nSystems integration experience with PLCs, HMIs, and industrial protocols (e.g., OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, Profinet).\nPCB design, layout, and test experience; Altium preferred.\nStrong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills with a continuous learning mindset.\nEducation and Experience\nBachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering or related field required; Master's or PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or Image Processing preferred.\nMinimum of 12 years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years in industrial machine vision or inspection.\nMinimum of 5 years leading engineering teams, with demonstrated readiness for Director level (strategic planning, budget ownership, leading leaders).\nProven ability to build team-oriented, high-performance environments.\nKnowledge of color theory and color measurement is a plus.\nAbility to travel occasionally, domestically and internationally.\nAt Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work-therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process.\nBarry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. 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