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Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description

Meet Our Team

Join a team at the forefront of Industrial IoT, Edge AI, and Smart Manufacturing, building next-generation vision systems that drive automation, quality, and operational excellence across automotive production environments. Our engineers, architects, and manufacturing specialists collaborate to deliver real-time computer vision solutions that improve product quality, reduce defects, and enable intelligent factory operations. You'll work with cutting-edge edge computing platforms, machine learning technologies, and cloud-native architectures to solve complex industrial challenges at scale.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect and design edge-based computer vision solutions for automotive manufacturing, quality inspection, and industrial automation.
• Develop, train, optimize, and deploy machine learning and computer vision models for real-time inference on industrial edge devices.
• Design hybrid Edge-to-Cloud architectures leveraging AWS services for model management, monitoring, analytics, and continuous improvement.
• Optimize model performance for latency, throughput, memory utilization, and power efficiency across edge hardware platforms.
• Build and maintain MLOps and DevOps pipelines for automated model deployment, updates, version control, rollback, and monitoring.
• Integrate vision systems with manufacturing technologies including PLCs, MES platforms, factory networks, and industrial control systems.
• Lead technical architecture decisions and establish best practices for edge AI, embedded vision, and production-grade deployments.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, operations, and engineering teams to deliver scalable and reliable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and enhance system performance in high-volume production environments.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across computer vision, machine learning, and edge computing initiatives.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on edge computing, embedded systems, or industrial automation.
• Expertise in Python and/or C++ development for performance-critical computer vision and machine learning applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with computer vision frameworks such as OpenCV and machine learning platforms including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and ONNX.
• Proven experience deploying AI/ML solutions on edge hardware platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson, Intel Edge devices, or similar embedded systems.
• Experience designing and implementing hybrid AWS architectures that connect edge environments with cloud-based services.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, production monitoring, and system reliability engineering.
• Experience delivering mission-critical solutions within automotive manufacturing or industrial production environments.
• Ability to optimize AI inference workloads for real-time performance and operational scalability.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to lead architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NVIDIA Tensor RT, CUDA, OpenVINO, or other hardware acceleration frameworks.
• Knowledge of industrial communication protocols including OPC UA, MQTT, and Modbus.
• Understanding of functional safety standards, validation processes, and production-grade manufacturing systems.
• Experience with industrial IoT architectures and connected factory environments.
• Familiarity with edge device fleet management, remote deployment, and lifecycle management strategies.

Location: South Carolina

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About us

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.