What is the Current State of Engineering Careers in the Machine Vision Industry?

Vision Systems Design's survey on careers and salaries in machine vision and imaging is now open. Take our survey and provide your insights!
Oct. 24, 2025
2 min read

It’s time to collect your feedback for Vision Systems Design’s annual Salary & Career survey. Each year, we ask you to take the survey and share your insights, which you can do anonymously.

We’ll report on the results, giving you objective feedback about the salaries for engineers specializing in machine vision. We will also report on a numerous other topics related to engineering careers.  

Take the survey HERE. You’ll be entered in a drawing for an Amazon gift card.

The editors at Vision Systems Design conduct this survey each year in conjunction with other journalism operations covering design, engineering and automation related industries at EndeavorB2B—Automation World, Control, Control Design, Electronic Design, Machine Design, Microwaves & RF, Military & Aerospace Electronics, and Power & Motion. This enables us to see not only how careers in the machine vision space are faring but also the design and engineering field as a whole.

Machine Vision and Engineering Topics 

Based on the responses, we’ll provide you with information on the following topics—plus others:

  • Promotions, job changes, and layoffs
  • Employment trends for the coming year
  • In-office versus at-home trends
  • Collaboration tools used regularly
  • Degree of collaboration with others
  • Issues that keep engineers up at night, such as product reliability and documenting ROI.
  • Impact of AI on engineering job functions in machine vision and imaging

Go ahead and share your thoughts on the engineering field. The entire machine vision and imaging community will benefit from access to objective salary and career information.

The Survey 

Take our survey HERE.

Thank you for your continued support of Vision Systems Design and the machine vision community. Reach out to me anytime with your news or concerns at [email protected].

Related: Engineering is a Great Career. More People Should Get Into It.

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Related: VSD Salary and Career Survey: Wading Into The Talent Pool

 

 

 

About the Author

Linda Wilson

Editor in Chief

Linda Wilson joined the team at Vision Systems Design in 2022. She has more than 25 years of experience in B2B publishing and has written for numerous publications, including Modern Healthcare, InformationWeek, Computerworld, Health Data Management, and many others. Before joining VSD, she was the senior editor at Medical Laboratory Observer, a sister publication to VSD.         

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