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# Vision Sales Engineer - San Francisco at Overview Corporation

- **Company:** Overview Corporation
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-02-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/overview/91219c61-9b19-4ddd-b050-738a9e08aba5

## Job description

Vision Sales Engineer

San Francisco, CA (California territory, field-first · open to relocation) Full-time

## ABOUT [OVERVIEW.AI](http://OVERVIEW.AI)

[Overview.ai](http://Overview.ai) is bringing the cutting edge of AI computer vision to manufacturing, solving inspection problems that were previously not solvable with traditional machine vision. 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. We'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.

## THE OPPORTUNITY

This is not a cold start. We grew roughly 700% last year, and California already has major logos, executive buy in, and deployments running on real production lines today. Your job is to hunt new inspection points and new logos across the territory while turning first station wins into multi line, multi site rollouts. You will do both from day one: open cold and expand warm, roughly 50/50. You are selling at the exact moment manufacturing leadership is being told to deliver AI outcomes, and vision inspection is the most tangible way a factory gets there because it moves yield, scrap, throughput, and labor.

## WHY THIS ROLE IS EXCITING

- Territory ownership from day one: you own pipeline, forecast, and revenue for California, and you get credit and commission across every site in an account you own.
- Delta selling, not slick talk: edge first performance and a feature set competitors do not have means you win on clear technical deltas you can demonstrate on the line.
- Real support, not hero mode: a dedicated applications and engineering escalation path, plus a proven evaluation playbook and a defined first station to expansion motion.
- Clear path up: Strategic Accounts, Regional Lead, player coach, and GM style ownership of a territory as we scale.

## WHAT YOU'LL OWN

- Territory revenue: Own pipeline, forecasting, and revenue outcomes for California against qualified opportunities sourced by our BDR team and generated inbound. This is not a cold outreach role; prospecting is a dedicated function and you take the opportunity from creation to close.
- Technical discovery: Run high signal discovery with Quality, Process, Automation, and Ops to understand the actual manufacturing problem, how they solve inspection today, and where the incumbent fails.
- Technical showcase: Put the technology in front of the customer yourself. Demo the product, reason live on an unfamiliar inspection problem, and position Overview on real deltas: accuracy, deployability, operator usability, and platform.
- Evaluations and POCs: Own the pilot end to end, including line access, data collection, camera placement, acceptance criteria, and the readout that converts a POC into a purchase.
- Customer relationships: Build relationships that hold from plant champions to regional leaders to global decision makers, and own the executive update cadence.
- Urgency and unblocking: Drive next steps and milestones to dates, identify process readiness, resourcing, line access, and integration blockers early, and push them to resolution.
- Closing: Negotiate and close with speed and precision, with relentless follow up and no drift to next quarter.
- Expansion over time: Convert first station wins into repeatable rollouts across lines, plants, and inspection points, and grow accounts year over year.
- Field presence: Live in the factory. This role travels 60 to 80% and is based in the Bay Area.

## WHO YOU ARE

Required

- Hands on vision or automation depth. You have personally built, deployed, tested, or debugged real vision or automated inspection systems in production environments, not specified or managed them from the buyer side.
- Live technical reasoning. You can work an unfamiliar inspection problem in real time, including lighting, optics, fixturing, and failure modes, rather than narrating past projects.
- Proven selling and closing. You have owned a real number, hunted new logos, and closed or expanded revenue you can speak to specifically.
- Crisp communication under pressure. You land the answer for a time pressed factory engineer without burying the point.
- Genuine appetite for both motions. You want cold opening and warm expansion, roughly evenly split, and you are choosing the field grind on purpose.
- Bay Area rooted. You are based in or genuinely connected to the region's industrial and tech ecosystem, and you can travel 60 to 80%.

Strong Preferences

- Manufacturing floor fluency. Time in plants across discrete or process manufacturing shortens your ramp with Quality and Ops buyers.
- Competitive vision market exposure. Direct experience with machine vision or AI inspection vendors means you already know where incumbents break.
- Multi site rollout experience. You have taken a single line win to an enterprise wide standard.
- Technical to executive translation. You have moved a technical evaluation up to regional or global decision makers.

## WHY [OVERVIEW.AI](http://OVERVIEW.AI)

- Extreme growth and real-world impact: We're not building demos. We're deploying AI systems on real production lines, at scale.
- Talent density: You'll work with world-class engineers and operators across AI, embedded systems, and enterprise deployment.
- Front-row seat to the AI manufacturing wave: One of the biggest transformations happening in industry right now.
- Ownership: Your work directly changes the trajectory of the company.
- Global exposure: You'll work with the most advanced customers and factories in the world.

## About Overview Corporation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Overview Corporation builds AI-powered vision systems for automated defect detection and quality inspection in manufacturing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup; Y Combinator W19 batch)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Russell Nibbelink, Austin Appel, Xiaoyang Kao

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Industrial AI, Computer Vision, Manufacturing Quality Control, Industrial Automation
- Target customers: B2B – Enterprise manufacturers across automotive, pharmaceutical packaging, electronics, and general industrial sectors
- Mission or purpose statement: "Catch every manufacturing defect in the world"

## Products & Services
- **OVX Inspection Platform**: AI-based quality inspection platform that runs entirely on edge devices, using advanced data augmentation to reduce sample requirements by 10x and training models in under one hour with as few as five images.
- **OV10i AI Vision Sensor**: Compact, smart camera with on-device AI training and inference, local browser-based configuration, and a 3–6 month typical payback cycle.
- **OV20i AI Vision Sensor**: Mid-range AI vision sensor with 200K+ production images storage, on-device training, and connectivity through all major PLC protocols (EtherNet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, OPC-UA, MQTT, HTTP, RS232, Discrete I/O).
- **OV80i High Performance AI Vision System**: GPU-powered high-accuracy edge system (NVIDIA GPU in every unit) for the most demanding inspection tasks, using vision-transformer-based models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total team of 50+ members, deployed across 30+ cities in 10 countries and 5 continents
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2019 batch); founding team members include former Tesla manufacturing leaders; Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition for the three co-founders
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid global expansion with local teams across 30 cities in 10 countries; deployed in demanding factory environments (automotive connectors, pharmaceutical packaging); achieving 100% defect coverage with 50% reduction in inspection costs and 75% reduction in rework; 0% defect escape rate reported

## Competitive Advantages
- **100% Edge computing** – No cloud dependency, production data never leaves the factory floor, addressing critical security and latency requirements
- **Rapid deployment** – Models trained in under one hour with as few as five images; deploy production systems in hours, not months
- **Hardware + Software integration** – Smart cameras with embedded NVIDIA GPUs and pre-loaded AI software, eliminating need for external compute
- **Open platform** – Compatible with every major PLC protocol, enabling seamless integration into existing factory infrastructure
- **Founding team pedigree** – Deep domain expertise from scaling production and quality systems in demanding factories, including Tesla

## Strategic Focus
- Continue global expansion into new geographies and manufacturing verticals
- Deepen edge AI capabilities for real-time, continuous inference in harsh factory environments
- Shorten time-to-ROI for customers (current target: 3–6 months payback)
- Scale team globally with engineering, science, and field operations talent

## Why Work Here
- **Real-world impact**: Code runs on real production lines 24/7 catching real defects, with metrics tracked in defects caught and scrap reduction, not research benchmarks
- **End-to-end ownership**: Engineers own problems from customer scoping through factory deployment and ongoing monitoring – no product manager layer
- **Ship fast, ship often**: Startup tempo with manufacturing rigor; work hits production lines within weeks
- **Global, remote-friendly culture**: Distributed teams across San Francisco, Austin, Mexico City, São Paulo, Zurich, Taipei, Shanghai and more; work asynchronously across time zones
- **Competitive compensation**: Salary, equity, comprehensive health insurance, 401(k), and generous PTO
- **Learning & growth**: Work alongside former Tesla, Apple, and top-tier manufacturing engineers; sponsorship for conferences, courses, and certifications
- **Solve hard problems**: Real-time AI inference, edge computing, multi-camera systems inspecting thousands of parts per minute in noisy, vibrating factory environments
- **Engineering-first culture**: Small teams, big ownership, direct customer impact

## Sources
1. [overview.ai – Company page](https://www.overview.ai/company/)
2. [overview.ai – Homepage](https://www.overview.ai/)
3. [overview.ai – Careers page](https://www.overview.ai/company/careers/)
4. [Y Combinator – Overview profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/overview)
5. [Ashby – Overview careers page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/overview)

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