Field Applications Engineer: Drive Experiments & Demos

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

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.