Field Application Engineer

Imec; Heverlee; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Imec, a world‑leading research center in Leuven, Belgium, is hiring a Field Application Engineer to test, evaluate and position novel sensing and imaging technologies across drones, microscopes, medical devices and industrial systems. You translate customer needs into experiments and provide actionable technical insights.

This hands‑on role requires 3–5 years of relevant experience, an engineering degree, strong English, and a pragmatic, independent mindset to work onsite 3–5 days per week.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, science, or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of relevant working experience.
• Experience in customer-facing engineering roles.
• Experience in hands-on engineering, application engineering, or experimental roles.
• Interest in application exploration, technology validation, and professional services.
• Strong technical communication and interpersonal skills; fluent in English.
• Availability to work onsite 3–5 days per week.

Responsabilités

• Design, organize, and execute lab and field experiments to evaluate novel technologies for emerging application scenarios.
• Translate application needs into test setups, experiments, and evaluation metrics.
• Organize live demonstrations and provide technical insights on imec technologies to internal and external stakeholders.
• Organize, execute and report on application feasibility studies.
• Document, analyse, and report experimental results, insights, and limitations.
• Provide structured feedback to research, engineering, and business teams to guide technology development and positioning.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams across research, engineering, AI and data, and application domains.
• Support external partners in early technology exploration, evaluation, and adoption.
• Champion the customer internally by sharing cases and feedback, translate customer needs into improvement ideas.
• Develop application demonstrators, prototypes, scripts, tools, and supporting materials.
• Contribute to selected application-driven research projects through hardware-software integration, data acquisition, and field experimentation.
• Share knowledge and insights internally, help building application expertise within the team.

Connaissances

Scripting / coding

Prototyping

Imaging / sensing / data acquisition

Embedded platforms

Technical communication

Formation

Engineering degree or equivalent

Description du poste

Field Application Engineer

What you will do

You will test, evaluate, and helpposition novel technologies in the context of emerging and unexploredapplication domains. Working at the interface between applicationexploration and technology development, you will translate application needsinto concrete experiments, assess technology capabilities and limitations inreal-world use cases, and provide critical feedback that helps shape thedirection of next‑generation solutions.
At imec, a wide range of novelsensing and imaging technologies are being researched and prototyped, spanningdifferent maturity levels—from early proof‑of‑concepts to higher‑TRLdemonstrators. These technologies are explored across diverse applicationdomains and being integrated into various platforms such as drones,microscopes, medical devices, industrial systems, and laboratory setups.
As a Field Application Engineer,you will work closely with internal research and engineering teams as well asexternal partners to explore use cases, design and execute experiments, andvalidate novel technologies in realistic application environments. You willplay a key role in understanding application‑driven requirements andtranslating them into actionable technical insights. Delivering clear feedbackand enabling decision‑making for both application and technology development iscentral to this role.
Your hands‑on work and structuredfeedback on how novel technologies perform, where their limitations lie, andwhat future application needs may be, will directly contribute to shapingongoing and future research and development activities.
In this job, your main activities will be:

• Design,organize, and execute lab and field experiments to evaluate novel technologiesfor emerging application scenarios
• Translateapplication needs into test setups, experiments, and evaluation metrics
• Organizelive demonstrations and provide technical insights on imec technologies tointernal and external stakeholders
• Organize,execute and report on application feasibility studies.
• Document,analyse, and report experimental results, insights, and limitations
• Providestructured feedback to research, engineering, and business teams to guidetechnology development and positioning
• Collaborateclosely with multidisciplinary teams across research, engineering, AI anddata, and application domains
• Supportexternal partners in early technology exploration, evaluation, andadoption
• Championthe customer internally by discussing interesting cases with your colleagues, share the customerfeedback to the engineering teams, translate customer needs intoimprovement ideas
• Developapplication demonstrators, prototypes, scripts, tools, and supportingmaterials
• Contributeto selected application‑driven research projects through hardware-softwareintegration, data acquisition, and field experimentation
• Shareknowledge and insights internally, help building application expertisewithin the team

What we do for you

We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you’ll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will determine the society of tomorrow.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, 'our corporate university', we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth.

We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits.

Who you are

• Ageneralist with a strong “can‑do” mentality and broad technical curiosity
• Amaker who enjoys building, experimenting, and learning across disciplines(expert level not required), such as:
  
  • Scripting/ coding
  • Prototypingand tinkering
  • Imaging,sensing, or data acquisition setups
  • Embeddedplatforms
• Aclear communicator who enjoys collaborating with new people and sharinginsights
• Independentand pragmatic, able to take initiative and move from idea to experiment
• Comfortableworking in an exploratory and fast‑changing research environment
• Hands‑on,proactive, curious, and creative
• Afast learner with enthusiasm for new technologies and applications
  

What do you have

• Adegree in engineering, science, or equivalent experience
• 3–5years of relevant working experience
• Youhave experience in customer-facing engineering roles
• Experiencein hands‑on engineering, application engineering, or experimental roles
• Interestin application exploration, technology validation, and professionalservices
• Strongtechnical communication and interpersonal skills; fluent in English
• Aproblem‑solving mindset and the ability to work both independently and inteams
• Availabilityto work onsite 3–5 days per week