Senior DIC Software Development Engineer
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.6 days ago
Norwood, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain state-of-the-art 2D and 3D Digital Image Correlation algorithms, including subset-based and global approaches.
- Develop correlation metrics, interpolation schemes, and strain-calculation methods.
- Validate algorithm accuracy and robustness using analytical methods, simulations, and experimental datasets.
- Collaborate on optical-system design and selection, including lenses, cameras, illumination, and stereo configurations.
- Contribute to camera calibration, stereo reconstruction, and geometric correction.
- Optimize DIC software for real-time or near-real-time execution and low-latency processing.
- Apply multithreading, SIMD/vectorization, GPU acceleration, and memory-efficient architectures to improve performance.
- Profile and benchmark code, eliminate computational bottlenecks, and balance accuracy, robustness, and execution speed for production deployment.
- Work with hardware teams to integrate imaging systems and DIC software.
Requirements
- An advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Vision, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
- Extensive hands-on experience with 2D and 3D Digital Image Correlation, including practical deployment on real imaging systems.
- Strong foundation in computer vision, numerical methods, optimization, and image processing.
- Proven experience developing high-performance, production-quality software for computationally intensive applications.
- Ability to prototype algorithms in MATLAB and deploy production implementations in C++.
- Demonstrated ability to optimize software for speed, memory efficiency, and robustness.
- Preferred experience with real-time DIC measurement systems in aerospace, automotive, biomechanics, materials testing, or similar domains.
- Preferred experience with GPU acceleration, heterogeneous computing architectures, uncertainty quantification, metrology standards, commercial or customer-deployed scientific software, or material testing systems.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, organizational, collaboration, problem-solving, ownership, and self-direction abilities.
Benefits
- Office and laboratory work environment in Norwood, Massachusetts, with little exposure to adverse conditions.