Electronics Engineer

Sphere-Defense; Brussel; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive compensation

Year-end bonus eligibility

Stock Options Plan eligibility

Mobility Budget

32 days of holidays

Meal vouchers

Private Health insurance

Job summary

Sphere Defense in Brussels, Belgium, seeks an experienced Electronics Engineer to join early on a mission to develop autonomous countermeasures for aerial threats. You will design and test system architectures and electronic boards, partnering with external teams and internal colleagues across digital and analog domains.

Bring-up boards, validate requirements, and produce production-ready documentation. Strong ownership, lab skills, and communication in English are required; French or Dutch are

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 4 years of relevant experience with ownership of complex designs.
• Proficiency with Altium Designer and/or Cadence OrCAD/Allegro.
• Deep electronic engineering skills in both digital and analog domains.
• Proficiency with Schematic Capture and PCB Layout design.
• Knowledge of DFM and reliability issues for complex electronics.
• Experience in selecting components and creating production-ready documentation (BOM, assy, etc.).
• Hands on with system bring up and internally prototyping boards.
• Proficient with lab equipment (oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer).
• Excellent written and spoken English; French or Dutch is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Be one of the first members of a high performing team, designing and developing autonomous countermeasures to protect countries from aerial threats.
• Design, develop and test system architectures and electronic boards, both internally and with external partners, with high speed peripherals and sensors.
• Bring up boards and systems, ensuring that all intended functional and performance requirements are met.
• Work with your colleagues to integrate feedback during design reviews.
• Troubleshoot and debug problems, ensuring that issues are addressed as they appear.
• Ensure the designs adhere to the industrial quality standards by drafting test plans and working with test houses for validation and certification.
• Draft production level documentation for the entire product lifecycle.
• Be a team player and a mentor, being available to support the team when needed.

Skills

Altium Designer

Cadence OrCAD/Allegro

Digital & Analog design

Schematic Capture

PCB Layout

DFM & Reliability

BOM & Production docs

Laboratory debugging

English proficiency

French or Dutch helpful

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscope

Spectrum Analyzer

Yocto Embedded Linux

FPGAs

Job description

Who we are

Sphere Defense is a fully funded technology startup with the mission of providing allied countries with sovereign, effective and seamless autonomous countermeasures to neutralize todays’ and tomorrow’s aerial threats.

Sphere Defense was founded by industry veterans with previous successful exits, and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, in the heart of Europe.

About you

You are an experienced and highly motivated Electronics Engineer that has worked with both high speed digital (integrating SoCs, DDRs, cameras) and analog (power stages, sensing, signal conditioning) designs. Ideally, you have worked with flying robots.

What you’ll do

• Be one of the first members of a high performing team, designing and developing autonomous countermeasures to protect countries from aerial threats

• Design, develop and test system architectures and electronic boards, both internally and with external partners, with high speed peripherals and sensors

• Bring up boards and systems, ensuring that all intended functional and performance requirements are met

• Work with your colleagues to integrate feedback during design reviews

• Troubleshoot and debug problems, ensuring that issues are addressed as they appear

• Ensure the designs adhere to the industrial quality standards by drafting test plans and working with test houses for validation and certification

• Draft production level documentation for the entire product lifecycle

• Be a team player and a mentor, being available to support the team when needed

Location: Onsite in Brussels, Belgium. Our office is close to Central Station.

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

• At least 4 years of relevant experience, with significant ownership of complex designs

• Proficiency with Altium Designer and/or Cadence OrCAD/Allegro

• Deep electrical engineering skills in both the digital and analog worlds

• Proficiency with Schematic Capture and PCB Layout design

• Knowledge of DFM and reliability issues for complex electronics

• Experience in selecting components and creating production ready documentation (BOM, assy, etc.)

• Hands on, with demonstrated ability in system bring up and internally prototyping boards

• Proficient with lab equipment (oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, etc.)

• You are a self starter, able to work in a high ambiguity environment and willing to take up new challenges

• Excellent written and spoken English, French or Dutch is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write firmware to bring up boards and PC software to test them

• Experience with FPGAs

• Experience with Embedded Linux (Yocto)

• Experience interfacing with EMS and with EOL tests implementation

• Experience with one or more of the following: RF/antenna design, motor control, rigid flex design, electro optical systems, SI/PDN simulation

What we offer

• Attractive compensation

• Year-end bonus eligibility

• Stock Options Plan eligibility

• Mobility Budget

• 32 days of holidays

• Meal vouchers

• Private Health insurance

Sphere Defense offers attractive compensation, stock options, and a unique opportunity to change the global defense landscape.

This role is only open to candidates with right to work in Belgium. We cannot provide visa sponsorship at this time.