Application Hardware/Software Engineer

Leuven
Engineering – System & Product Integration /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Swave Photonics is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets holographic chips based on proprietary diffractive photonics technology. Our mission is to enable display manufacturers and content creators to disrupt the visualization market with immersive ultra-high resolution, life-like, true holographic displays.

Role and responsibilities
With the Swave team you will create a new world where holographic displays give everyone the power to visualize the impossible, collaborate and accomplish more.

We are looking for a talented Application HW/SW Engineer to join the Swave team to take a leading role in driving our customer’s products to market as quickly as possible. The successful candidate will leverage strong technical talent and a customer savvy disposition to help customers solve problems and execute great products.  From a home base in Belgium you will execute the design of systems to enable the verification and testing of a state of the art holographic projection semiconductor IC.   You will travel extensively, develop key technical relationships with our best customers, and help them launch game-winning products based on our newest break-through technologies.

- You will be responsible for design of the controller systems for our IC, including FPGA design, embedded SW development, bring up of our test and development boards, as well as related validation and testing. 
- You will coordinate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders, including (but not limited to) SW development team, IC design, electronic board design, etc.
- You will support our customers to build their products leveraging our development kits.
- Your focus on product engineering and manufacturability will help finalize our customer’s product development and take their products to revenue.

Qualifications 
- MS EE
- Knowledge of leading edge FPGA design, testing and HW/SW co-development.
- Excellent knowledge of logic design, modeling and testing.
- Comfortable with embedded Linux SW development and testing, device driver development and board bring up.
- Good knowledge of C, C++ and/or Python.
- Familiarity with semiconductor and system testing is a plus.
- Able to plan and execute according to tight schedules.
- Is comfortable operating in a lab setting for extended periods.
- Team player
- Excellent professional command of English both spoken and written

What we offer you
- An attractive salary package, in line with your knowledge and experience.
- A challenging work environment with plenty of opportunities to keep developing yourself and your skills.
- Sufficient flexibility to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Location: Leuven, Belgium.