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We're a full-stack company: we deploy GPU-powered cameras on production lines, run inference on the edge, and operate a platform that supports large fleets of devices deployed across the world.\nWe're growing extremely fast. Our customers love the product because it works: high accuracy, fast deployment, and an operator-friendly experience that makes real factory rollouts possible, not just pilots.\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\nWe are putting an engineer on the ground in Mexicali to support a major manufacturing customer directly. This is a hands-on field role: you will install our cameras, integrate them with existing PLCs and controls, and keep vision systems running under live production constraints. Because you are local, you are the technical face of Overview at the plant, not a remote resource who flies in when something breaks. This is a strong role for a controls, mechatronics, or electrical engineer with a few years of automation experience who wants to move into AI vision systems.\nWHY THIS ROLE IS EXCITING\nYour work keeps production lines running. You will see the impact of what you build the same day you build it.\n\nYou will grow across three stacks at once: industrial controls, machine vision, and AI systems in production.\n\nHigh ownership from day one. You own the technical execution at your site end to end, with minimal bureaucracy.\n\nDirect line to the product team. The constraints you hit on the floor shape what we build next.\n\nWHAT YOU'LL OWN\nSystem installation: Physically install Overview cameras, lighting, and supporting hardware on production lines and validate the setup.\n\nPLC integration: Configure our systems to work with existing PLCs (Allen Bradley, Siemens, GE, Beckhoff), map I/O, and set up communication protocols.\n\nOn-site troubleshooting: Diagnose connector, continuity, signal timing, encoder feedback, and I/O issues in live production without taking lines down.\n\nProduction validation: Confirm speed, accuracy, and reliability on real lines, and tune for lighting, vibration, and material variation.\n\nCustomer enablement: Train operators, maintenance, and engineers on system operation and first-line troubleshooting.\n\nDeployment support: Be the technical point of contact through installation, ramp-up, and the first weeks of production operation.\n\nDocumentation: Write configuration records and setup guides the customer's team can actually use.\n\nProduct feedback: Feed real-world constraints and failure modes back to engineering.\n\nWHO YOU ARE\nRequired\n1 to 3 years of hands-on experience in industrial automation, with a background in controls, mechatronics, or electrical engineering.\n\nDirect experience with PLC systems (Allen Bradley, Siemens, or similar): configuring I/O, reading documentation, and troubleshooting connectivity. Comfortable with ladder logic or structured text.\n\nExperience installing, configuring, or integrating hardware on live production equipment without breaking existing controls.\n\nAble to troubleshoot electrical and hardware problems on-site with a multimeter, oscilloscope, or continuity tester, with a working understanding of voltage, current, and signal integrity.\n\nTime on a manufacturing floor and an understanding of downtime pressure and production constraints.\n\nBased in Mexicali or willing to relocate there, and able to work to customer shift schedules and production priorities.\n\nProfessional working proficiency in English and Spanish, since you will work with the local plant team and with Overview engineering.\n\nStrong Preferences\nExperience with vision systems or industrial cameras, including setup, focus, and lighting.\n\nFamiliarity with industrial communication protocols (Ethernet/IP, Profibus, Modbus, serial).\n\nExperience training operators and engineers on new systems.\n\nComfort working independently and making technical calls in the field without waiting for backup.\n\nExperience with specific platforms: Allen Bradley CompactLogix/ControlLogix, Siemens S7-1200/S7-1500.\n\nWHYOVERVIEW.AI\nExtreme growth and real-world impact: We're not building demos. 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