Innovation Engineer

EVS; Luik; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Wellness benefits

Training & internal mobility

Job summary

EVS is seeking an Innovation Engineer to identify, analyze, validate, and prototype medium- to long-term technological innovations for new products. You will contribute to architecture, design, implementation, testing, and documentation while ensuring robustness, scalability and upgradeability of building blocks.

You will work on an applied research project around immersive technologies, developing prototypes and handing over to R&D for productization, with collaboration across universities,

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience with Linux-based software development is required.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and develop complex software-defined networking solutions.
• Analyze current and future EVS ecosystem; assess promising software, hardware and algorithmic technologies via POCs and tests.
• Develop prototypes demonstrating that technologies work under realistic EVS conditions.
• Plan and follow assigned innovation roadmap activities, including progress communication and documentation.
• Explain and evangelize innovation results internally and ensure proper handover to R&D with documentation and productization support.
• Interact with universities, research projects, technology suppliers, industry/standardization orgs and customers.

Skills

C++

C#

JavaScript

Python

Education

Bachelor or Master in Computer Science

Tools

Linux

Job description

Scope

The Innovation Engineer identifies, analyzes, validates, and prototypes medium- to long-term technological innovations that will lead to new products for EVS, ensuring that the company makes the right technology decisions for its future offerings and, at the end of each analysis cycle, handing the prototype over to the R&D teams for further “productization.” In this role, the engineer actively takes part in all development activities, including analysis, architecture, design, implementation, testing, validation, technical documentation, and maintenance, while ensuring the robustness, reliability, scalability, testability, and upgradeability of all building blocks. The engineer also delivers a high-level design that breaks the solution or product down into its components and related interfaces, guaranteeing the consistency of the whole solution in support of market requests, and contributes to the Innovation technology roadmap.

Job Description

• Define, design, and develop complex software-defined networking solutions
• Understand the current and future EVS ecosystem.Analyze promising software, hardware and algorithmic technologies, assess value and technical gaps through POCs and tests.
• Develop prototypes demonstrating that technologies work under realistic EVS conditions.
• Build the case for why a technology is valuable, or not, and recommend next steps.
• Plan and follow assigned innovation roadmap activities, including progress communication and documentation.
• Explain and evangelize innovation results internally.
• Maintain research documentation and stay current with new technologies.
• Drive continuous improvement and long-term evolution from an innovation perspective.
• Ensure proper handover to R&D, including documentation, handover planning and assistance with productization.
• Interact externally with universities, research projects, technology suppliers, industry/standardization organizations and customers.
• The role will have a particular focus on an applied research project around immersive technologies, exploring how emerging technologies can enable new forms of live and immersive media production, experiences and workflows.

Profile

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science or equal.

Technical skills:

• Experience in C++, C#, JavaScript, Python;
• Experience with software development on Linux;

The following experiences are not mandatory, and will be considered as an asset:

• Experience in Computer Vision;
• Experience in Machine Learning;
• Some embedded knowledge/experience;
• Knowledge of video and audio technologies;
• Experience with Agile development methods and tools (e.g. Jira, CI, Git).

Soft skills:

• Creative, out-of-the-box, pragmatic and proactive;
• Quickly understands a technical domain and its complexity;
• Aligned with EVS values: Innovation, Passion, Ambition, Agility, Accountability, Teamwork, and Customer Success.

Languages:

• Fluent in English
• Other languages are considered as asset

Offer

Becoming Part of the EVS Team not only means that you will receive a competitive salary in line with your skills and the market, but also a range of other additional wellness and healthcare benefits. Our flexible schedules and hybrid way of working (homeworking) policies will help you preserve your work-life balance.

EVS will give you the tools to develop your skills and your career by giving you the opportunities of internal mobilities and a wide range of trainings. We encourage our motivated talents with a friendly, lively, and inclusive environment.

Check out our website if you want to know more about why you should join EVS !