Be visionary

At Teledyne FLIR, we have a simple but ambitious mission: to develop market-leading thermal and sensing technologies which enhance everyday life. From saving energy, to saving lives Teledyne FLIR is making a real difference in our world.

Our products are used in a wide array of situations to rescue people in danger, detect criminals, conserve energy, navigate safely, provide security around the globe, and protect our environment.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Be visionary
At FLIR, we have a simple but ambitious mission: to develop market-leading thermal and sensing technologies which enhance everyday life. From saving energy to saving lives, FLIR is making a real difference in our world. Our products are used in a wide array of situations to rescue people in danger, detect criminals, conserve energy, navigate safely, provide security around the globe, and protect our environment. We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Summary:
FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions (IIS), a division of FLIR systems, headquartered in the Greater Vancouver area, BC, addresses mainly 2 growing markets: Machine vision for the largest part of our activities, and People Flow Analytics.
Regarding Machine Vision: we provide to machinery manufacturers or system integrators imaging products and solutions that are used for quality inspection, measurement, traceability, vision guided automation and robotics, as well
as intelligent traffic systems. Regarding People Analytics: we are currently focused on Retail Analytics, and we provide imaging products and solutions that are used to measure retail customers traffic, customers queuing time, customers flows in the retail space; Essentially our People Analytics products help to replicate the equivalent of web analytics in the physical world.
Our Software Development team is a group of diverse, fun individuals passionate about software development, testing and automation. As leaders in the Machine Vision industry, we strive to keep up to date with the latest industry
standards and prioritize quality in every aspect of our work. We are looking for a Software Test Developer Co-op to work with us on test case execution and automation improvements for our Machine Vision SDK and GUI components,
for a minimum of 8-months.

About you:
Your passion for technology is evident from your actions and easy to see when discussing your personal projects and recent activities.
You show an eagerness to learn and aim to better yourself through independent learning and collaboration with a team.
You enjoy a high degree of autonomy when working and have a genuine desire to learn from and support your team.

The Role:
Our team is self-organizing and highly collaborative. We believe in others good intentions and approach team interactions with compassion and empathy. Each member of the team has direct input in the stories and tasks we commit to. We strongly believe in the Scrum methodology and are constantly improving ourselves and our processes to make sure what we're doing works for us. You will work closely with your team and stakeholders to plan, develop, and improve software testing and processes for our main Machine Vision SDK, GUI applications and utilities, and corresponding camera drivers. As you gain experience, you will grow your skills and expand your responsibilities beyond manual testing and automation to also include test development.
To stimulate creativity and innovation we offer up to two days of "innovation time" per month to explore new technologies or product ideas. Excited about a newly discovered technology, process or other improvement? Share it
with your fellow engineers during "demo days"; choose to give a presentation, run a live demo, or suggest a new format that best suits your needs.

Technologies we use:
Our tests are written primarily in C++, as well as in C, C#/.Net and Python to match the languages supported by our SDK. We support Windows, Linux and macOS and use various scripting languages to run our test automation infrastructure.

We are interested in candidates from any background so long as you have some technical experience and an eagerness
to learn. Here is a list of some of the other technologies we use:

Jira, Bitbucket, Fisheye, Jenkins
Git, SVN
WPF, Qt, SWIG
Shell, Batch, Groovy, Ant
Boost, GTest, CPPUnit, xUnit, pytest, SikuliX
Wireshark
Docker
Jenkins Job Builder

Minimum second year student in Computer/Electrical/Software Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent).

Interesting Facts about FLIR IIS:

Benefits for Co-ops include: free transit pass, fully subsidized cafeteria, onsite bike room, flexible work hours,
work from home options
All our cameras are designed and manufactured onsite

FLIR and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all
employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty,
integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.
FLIR is an equal opportunity employer.

Teledyne FLIR and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne FLIR is an equal opportunity employer.