We are looking for a hands-on Senior Hardware Engineer to play a key role in the development, bring-up and validation of advanced image sensor platforms. This position requires strong practical engineering skills, the ability to independently debug complex systems, and a passion for working in a lab-oriented R&D environment. Key Responsibilities: • Lead the bring-up and validation of hardware platforms used for image sensor testing. • Perform advanced hardware debugging and root-cause analysis using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and source measure units (SMUs). • Develop Python-based automation tools for test execution, data acquisition, and analysis. • Design, review, and troubleshoot schematics and PCB layouts involving high-speed digital and analog circuitry. • Design and validate power delivery, monitoring, and signal-conditioning circuits for complex hardware systems. • Support FPGA-based development by understanding, modifying, and debugging VHDL code used for hardware control, data acquisition, and system integration. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including image sensor design, validation, and software engineering groups.<

Position Qualifications: • Extensive experience as a senior hardware engineer, with a strong track record of hands-on system bring-up and debugging. • Expertise in hardware troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and validation of complex electronic systems. • Solid experience in high-speed digital PCB design, including signal integrity, impedance control, and interface validation. • Good understanding of analog circuit design, including power supply architecture, sequencing, monitoring, and measurement circuitry. • Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools; experience with Altium Designer is preferred. • Practical experience developing and troubleshooting FPGA designs in VHDL, including simulation, implementation, and on-board debugging. Prior experience with AMD (Xilinx) FPGAs (Vivado toolchain, on-chip debug) is a strong plus. • Strong Python scripting skills for test automation and laboratory equipment control. • Direct experience in image sensor environments, including bring-up, validation, and characterization workflows is a strong plus. • Experience with image sensor bring-up, validation, and characterization workflows is a plus. • Ability to work independently and take ownership of complex hardware validation campaigns. • Familiarity with wafer probers, probe cards, and IC test systems is desirable.<

We are looking for a Digital Backend Engineer to drive and execute the physical implementation of complex digital modules for advanced CMOS image sensors. Key responsibilities: • Execute the complete digital backend flow from RTL to GDS, including synthesis, floorplanning, power planning, place & route, clock tree synthesis (CTS), static timing analysis (STA) and logic equivalence checking (LEC). • Provide innovative solutions to reach product targets and drive performance, power and area optimizations. • Develop, maintain and enhance backend methodologies, flows and automation scripts. • Collaborate closely with the analog team and the digital design and verification engineers to resolve implementation challenges and successfully complete the project. • Write clear and comprehensive technical documentation. • Participate in design/architecture reviews and risk assessments from a physical implementation perspective. • Provide training and guidance to other team members. • Work closely with foundries and EDA vendors to integrate new technologies, improve methodologies and resolve issues.<

• Bachelor’s degree or above in microelectronics or related fields. • Experience with the complete digital backend flow from RTL to GDS. • Experience with industry-standard EDA tools. • Proficiency in scripting languages (Tcl, Python). • Solid understanding of the complete IC development flow. • Able to combine an organized and methodical design philosophy with a sense for creativity and innovation. • Strong analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills. • Can integrate and work easily in a small and dynamic team in an international environment. • Fluent in English, both spoken and written. • Strong plus: - Experience with Cadence tools (Genus, Innovus, Tempus, …). - Experience with CMOS image sensor architectures and/or mixed-signal ASIC development.<

We are looking for a senior-level Digital Design Engineer with 5+ years of relevant experience to be responsible for the study, design and verification of the digital circuits of advanced CMOS image sensors. Key Responsibilities • Define and study digital specifications for advanced CMOS image sensors, including area and power estimations. • Support the technical lead in defining the sensor architecture. • Design and implement digital circuits in RTL (VHDL), keeping performance, power and area optimizations in mind. • Develop verification environments, testbenches, checkers and test scenarios in UVM (SystemVerilog), run regressions and debug results. • Use constrained-random verification, define coverage metrics and drive coverage closure. • Work together with different teams and communicate efficiently to successfully complete the project. • Participate in design/architecture reviews and risk assessments. • Write clear and comprehensive technical documentation. • Give technical support including interaction with customers and/or suppliers. • Lead, attend and present at project/review meetings worldwide. • Contribute to methodology and flow improvements in design, verification and overall development efficiency. • Mentor and coach junior team members with technical expertise and best practices. • Contribute to conference publications, technical papers and the company's patent portfolio<

• Bachelor’s degree or above in microelectronics or related fields. • 5+ years of relevant experience in digital IC design and verification • Strong expertise in digital architecture, RTL design (VHDL/Verilog) and functional verification (SystemVerilog/UVM). • Hands-on experience with chip-level mixed signal verification. • Good understanding of synthesis, place & route and timing analysis to support digital backend engineers. • Can comfortably (learn to) use relevant scripting and/or programming languages. • Solid understanding of the complete IC development flow. • Able to combine an organized and methodical design philosophy with a sense for creativity and innovation. • Strong analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills. • Can integrate and work easily in a small and dynamic team in an international environment. • Fluent in English, both spoken and written. • Strong plus: - Experience in mixed-signal ASIC development - Experience with CMOS image sensor architectures and/or image-processing pipelines. - Hands-on experience executing the digital backend flow from RTL to GDS. - Experience leading digital projects<

After integrating into the team and getting acquainted with our design flow and technology, you will take a prominent role in the study, design and verification of analog and mixed-signal circuits for our sensor design projects. Following further expansion of your image sensor expertise, you will also collaborate on the definition of sensor architectures and the top-level verification of sensor designs. Eventually you can grow into a technical project leader role, driving design projects from start to finish and providing technical leadership to the analog and digital block designers in your project team. Your design and verification tasks are executed in close collaboration with analog and digital IC design team members. As your expertise grows and you take on more responsibilities, you will interface with other internal divisions as well, including marketing, validation and manufacturing<

The ideal candidate for this position: Has demonstrated excellence in analog circuit design and masters state-of-the art IC design and verification tools. Has a solid understanding of the complete IC design flow after working several years in a mixed-signal IC design environment. Combines an organized and methodical design philosophy with a sense for creativity and innovation. Can integrate and work easily in a small and dynamic team. Fluently communicates in English with fellow design engineers and colleagues outside of the design team, on- and off-site, but also with customers and partners. Relevant experience in image sensor design is considered a major advantage, but not a mandatory requirement for this position. This function involves occasional travel to Asia.<

In this function, you will work in the validation team which consists of hardware, software and validation engineers. You will collaborate closely with a strong design team that has vast experience in image sensor IC design. Our design team works on various off-the-shelf and custom high-end CMOS image sensor projects, always on the forefront of image sensor technology. After integrating in the team and getting acquainted with our image sensor technology, you will take on the responsibility of validating our image sensor ICs when first prototype devices become available. Validation includes sensor bring-up, functional validation of sensor features, optimizing the sensor performance in the lab and verifying that the design meets its performance requirements. Before the validation of a sensor starts, you will define the requirements for the validation system, and create the validation plan based on sensor datasheet and specifications. When the work is done you report on the outcome in a clear and concise way. During the validation work, you analyse the measurement data and discuss observed sensor behaviour with the IC design engineers. You are responsible for the creation of the measurement scripts to automate the validation and for the setup and maintenance of a well-equipped validation lab. All validation work is done in close collaboration with the IC design engineers that have designed the sensor. You will also interface with other Gpixel’s departments to discuss input, output and progress of the validation work.<

The ideal candidate for this position: -Has practical experience in defining and executing validation campaigns on mixed-signal ICs in a professional and structured way. -Has good analytical and problem-solving skills. -Has practical experience and very good understanding of electronics and lab equipment usage. -Has practical experience in using and debugging hardware and software. -Can comfortably use Python to create well-structured and reusable measurement and data analysis scripts. -Can distil results from a large amount of data in an analytical way to create clear and concise reporting. -Combines an organized and methodical working philosophy with a sense for creativity and innovation. -Can integrate and work easily in a small and dynamic team. -Fluently communicates in English with fellow engineers and colleagues outside of the image sensor development team, on- and off-site, but also with customers and partners. Relevant experience in the field of image sensors or imaging is considered a major advantage, but not a mandatory requirement for this position. This function involves occasional travel to Asia.<