We are always looking for talented individuals to join our organisation. So if you are interested in joining us then simply send an email to: jobs@softkinetic.com for further information.
SoftKinetic is a young high-tech start-up company located in Belgium, USA and Asia delivering state-of-the-art solutions in the field of “natural interfaces” and in particular in 3D Depth motion & control technologies including: CMOS 3D Sensors, 3D cameras reference designs, 3D-2D- Voice software SDK/algorithms and applications. SoftKinetic start-up spirit demands a flexible work environment, where expertise, motivation and efforts are strategic keywords. In return SoftKinetic provides a variety of career opportunities for technical, consulting and business-minded professionals and provides a stimulating environment where people can explore and sharpen their skills. Natural Interfaces & 3D motion control technologies are a new field that is changing the way people/systems interact with computers, gaming, TV or industrial image processing systems.
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Software System Validation Team Leader 
Job description
Under the direction of the Head of Software Engineering, the Software System Validation Team leader will manage the entire Software System Validation for the complete Software products, aiming to deliver highest Quality products on-time. The Software System Validation Team leader will be responsible for defining the best strategy, methodology and tools for system validation and making sure it gets implemented and executed by the System Validation team that he will manage. The System Validation team consists of dedicated people to define, implement and execute the necessary (automated) system test tools to validate the products. The Software System Validation Team leader will also manage the dedicated QA/Test people in the different competence teams (Middleware, Camera drivers and Tools design) to assure an overall integrated approach of validation throughout the company to be aligned with the top level system validation done by the system validation team. In that context, he will align best practices and system validation plans with the HW Validation Team leader and the Head of Hardware Engineering, in particular with respect to Camera drivers and Camera hardware. In terms of Quality Assurance work within the company, he will raise QA awareness throughout the company and create new processes and documents to aid successful, timely and within budget QA work. The Software System Validation Team leader will be responsible for day to day management of the Software System Validation team.
Responsibilities
- Management of Software System Validation team, as well functional management of the Test Engineers inside the competence teams (driver, middleware and tools design)
- Management of System Validation campaigns for the various projects and products of the company
- Define the methodology and tools necessary to guarantee high quality products (system, hardware software) released in time. This includes test automation to allow easy regression testing and efficient test campaigns. It also includes to define the relevant KPI and Metrics (incl. bug-tracking), and reporting through the company. The methodology will match with the Agile methodology of SW development (Scrum)
- Coordination of project and product releases, this from the early definition of the product up to a mature product ready to release for mass production (hardware/embedded software) or mass deployment (software).
- Once the product is released, you will be the point of contact of the Professional Services team in case of customer complaints, and point of contact of our Manufacturing sites in case of production problems related to the system design.
- Coordinate the analysis of customer returns, yield/production problems or customer complaints, and improve the design and validation process with the relevant corrective actions.
- Leverage your expertise to boost time-to-market of the 3D gesture solutions with team in Europe, North America and Asia
- Participate in the communication/exchange of best practices, experiences between de different Development teams
Qualifications
Primary skills:
- Previous similar professional experience (minimum 5 years) in System, SW and HW packaged solutions
- Previous similar professional experience in a Software Agile development environment
- License/master in computer science, electronic or civil engineering
- Strong and relevant experience in Management of test and QA engineers.
- Experience with System Design engineering is an important extra asset.
- Structured, organized, rigorous, good communicator, decision maker
- Experience in Methodologies and Tools for System design and validation, and their pragmatic deployment
- Experience in Test Automation for regression testing of Software systems with hardware components
- Focus on quality, detail minded
- Supports changes and continuous learning
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, shares information actively; responds properly, reports on-time; accepts criticism and other opinions, addresses criticism constructively
- Excellent in people management and team player
Passionate about System, Software and Hardware development and motivated to work as part of a dynamic, ambitious team
Secondary:
- Knowledge in 3D system/hw/sw design and programming a plus
- Knowledge of following Software development languages: C++, C#, Flash, XML, Unity 3D
- Knowledge of SW development tools: Git, Cruise Control…
- Knowledge on camera electronic (hardware, firmware and embedded software) and mechanical design
- Knowledge on software design
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent people skills
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Technical Product Owner
Job description
Under the direction of the Head of Software Engineering, the Technical product Owner will be responsible for driving the definition of the architecture of the SW being developed by the company. He will also be responsible of the capture of the requirements and participation to the writing of the use case and user story during development phases. He is involved with the project from the concept phase, through the design and implementation, to testing and market launch. The Technical Product Owner will also be involved in Agile methodology and process. Interest for scrum methodology is an add-on.
Responsibilities
- Driving the architecture of the SW by participating with the team leader to the definition of the SW
- Capture of the requirements
- Documenting and writing new Requirements for newly designed SW.
- Maintaining the SW Requirements.
- Conducting Requirements reviews as needed (User Story Workshop).
- From the requirements, write and document the User Stories to be used for the specification and development of the SW
- Occasional client interfaces.
>li>Ability to interface with wide range of individuals, both internally as well as external clients
Qualifications
Primary skills:
- License/master in computer science or Civil engineer or License/Master in mathematics
- Strong skills in Software Requirements, specification, design and architecture
- Strong knowledge of Software Requirements process (spec documentation, UML Methodology…)
- Strong knowledge of Agile (scrum) methodology
- Strong experience in software engineering
- Extremely thorough and focused
- Passionate about software development and motivated to work as part of a dynamic, ambitious team
Secondary:
- Strong math skills
- Experience in 3d engine programming a plus
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent people skills
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Support Engineer
Job description
Working with the companies in the micro-electronic and telecommunication industries, as well as with our TODO, the Support Engineer will have the responsibility to help our customers use technologies at their best by providing them with expert advice, training and sample solutions.
Responsibilities
- Answer support requests from customers, VAR’s, beta testers and key accounts.
- Analyze and solve customers’ problems.
- Contribute to and animate support forums.
- Write FAQ’s, application notes and KPNS.
- Prepare and maintain demos.
- Be a technical representative in meetings with customers.
- File and validate documentation, software, hardware enhancement requests.
- Test, maintain and extend trainings, code samples and demonstrators.
- Prepare the hardware and software set-up for demonstrations and trainings
- Teach trainings at SoftKinetic, at customer premises or remotely.
Qualifications
Primary skills:
- Excellent level of English
- Client-facing and communication skills
- Customer oriented
Secondary:
- Experience in working within L2/L3 support team is a plus
- Willing to travel
We are currently looking for different profiles. According to your background and knowledge, we have different products you can work on (work for one specific product or for several products):
For the sensors:
- Ability to guide a customer in integrating our reference design in their camera’s.
- Experience in PCB design.
- Experience in thermal, mechanical design, optics and laser diodes is a plus.
For the cameras’:
- A good understanding of camera optics and sensors ( ideally 3D )
- A good understanding of video, audio USB devices on windows and Linux
- Experience with failure hardware/software analysis.
For the iisu middleware:
- Technical background in IT and software development.
- Good skills in C, C++, C#.
- Experience with openGL, Flash or Unity is a plus
- Experience in game development is a plus
- Experience with Linux is a plus
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent people skills
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Professional Services Project Leader
Job description
Under the direction of the Head of Professional Services, the Project Leader will be responsible for the coordination and leadership of Professional Services Projects. He/she will lead the design, development and testing phases of software and hardware being developed and integrated by the company. He/she is involved with the project from the concept phase, through the design and implementation, to testing and market launch. The Project Leader will also be involved in Agile methodology and process and will manage the various development phases following agile methodology (scrum method).
Responsibilities
- You will participate in the early phase of projects and collect the requirements and specifications inputs from the customer.
- You will coordinate the technical design proposals with R&D.
- You will build the global project planning, coordinate the allocation of development resources and set priorities.
- You will track project progress and resource planning and handle change requests.
- You will report on the project internally and to customers.
- You will manage the project risks and coordinate with the Quality Control department for building adequate test plans.
- You will plan and organize the delivery to the customer, including training, documentation and support.
- You will participate in the definition, communication and exchange of best practices, experiences between de different developments teams will also be one of your responsibilities.
Qualifications
Primary skills:
- License/master in computer science or Civil engineer or License/Master in mathematics.
- Broad knowledge and experience of (embedded) software and hardware.
- Proven experience in technical project management and interaction with customers.
- Structured, organized, rigorous, good communicator, decision maker.
- Achieves high quality results through thoughtful analysis and planning; target driven and result oriented.
- Focus on quality, detail minded, willing to take care of customer point of view.
- Supports changes and continuous learning.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, shares information actively; responds properly, reports on-time; accepts criticism and other opinions, addresses criticism constructively.
- Excellent team player.
- Excellent people manager.
- Capable of planning and tracking the work of a team, of communicating planning and progress, of getting help where needed.
- High stress resistance does not give up in crisis situation; does not loose control under pressure.
- Passionate about software and hardware development and motivated to work as part of a dynamic, ambitious team.
Secondary:
- Experience in 3d hardware or software is a plus
Extra-informations
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Hardware
Product Development manager
Job description
Under the direction of the Head of Engineering, you will be our Product Development Manager, making sure the products on our roadmap are well developed in time and with high quality, this from the early feasibility stages up to the end of the product development cycle when products are put into mass-production. The focus will be on both hardware (DepthSense cameras and sensors) and software (iisu) products and the system integration aspects of these products. You will take the lead as ‘Program manager’ for these key product developments.
You will be working in close co-operation with the System Architects and Design teams. You will be focusing on product specification with customers, suppliers and engineers. In particular you will supervise the development and production of DepthSense state of the art pioneering real-time 3D depth sensing cameras which combine IR, RGB, Depth and Voice technologies. This involves co-ordination between different internal & external teams from CMOS Sensors, camera hardware and software designing and production facilities in Europe and Asia. You will also be in contact with customers to incorporate their visions in the company roadmap and products, and once prototypes are available to set up the necessary co-R&D with lead customers. Part of your responsibilities will be to visit on a regular base customers and suppliers in Asia, Europe and USA.
Responsibilities
- Translate the strategic goals and objectives of the organization in robust, stable and effective 3D cameras for both the consumer and industrial markets, including sensors and software to deliver a full package solution
- In-depth Technical program management, functionally managing internal and external design & validation teams, and in particular the camera, sensor and software project leaders.
- Drive and participate to system optimization and engineering for products over boundaries of hardware and software teams (horizontal).
- Achieve critical milestones of the product development programs, and in the end reach the product maturity in time and with high quality
- Coordination of project and product releases, this from the early definition of the product up to a mature product ready to release for mass production (hardware/embedded software) or mass deployment (software).
- Establish and manage relationships and project follow-up with international customers, in alignment with the local Customer Account Manager.
- Lead and present at project/review meetings with customers worldwide, and participate in technical meetings and integration camps. Provide necessary feed-back to technical teams.
- Produce accurate and concise reports and metrics about the programs/projects to top management
- Leverage your expertise to boost time-to-market of the 3D gesture solutions with team in Europe, North America and Asia.
- Contribute in setting up best practices in Design Methodologies and Tools with the different Development & Validation teams
Qualifications
Primary skills:
- Previous similar professional experience in System, SW and HW packaged solutions
- License/master civil engineering, electronic, computer science
- Strong and relevant experience in Management of technical projects, showing also necessary hands-on and pragmatism ; excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience with System Design engineering is an important extra asset.
- Structured, organized, rigorous, good communicator, decision maker
- Make concise (product/design) specifications based on gathered requirements
- Experience in Methodologies and Tools for System & Product design and validation, and their pragmatic deployment
- Focus on quality, detail minded, while keeping the overall product/system overview
- Supports changes and continuous learning
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, shares information actively; responds properly, reports on-time; accepts criticism and other opinions, addresses criticism constructively
- Excellent people skills and interacting with key external customers, suppliers, partners
- Passionate about System, Software and Hardware development and motivated to work as part of a dynamic, ambitious team
Secondary:
- Knowledge in 3D system/HW/SW design and programming a plus
- Knowledge on chip design and validation
- Knowledge on camera electronic (hardware, firmware and embedded software) and mechanical design
- Knowledge on software design
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent people skills
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
HW Validation Project Leader
Job description
Under the direction of the Hardware validation team leader, you will be our Hardware Validation Project leader. You will manage projects within the HW Validation teams to ensure continuous improvement on cost and quality for 3D HW products within budget limits. You also implement quality related customer requirements, agreements and improvements to ensure customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- You target the highest quality HW products (deliver on time + maintain and guarantee high quality)
- You develop and cultivate a continuous improvement culture
- You implement overall HW product quality and HW product improvements
- You initiate and lead improvement projects
- You cooperate with internal and external customers and suppliers concerning quality issues and claims, with the goal to achieve the right balance between customer satisfaction, quality and cost effectiveness
- You do the technical analysis on pre-production, production, CR issues
- You coordinate issue tracking : prototype, production
- You do the follow up of implementation corrective actions and report to management
- You guide associates of multidisciplinary teams in root-cause analysis, problem solving methods and process improvement methods
- You lead problem solving initiatives to insure resolution and improved results, leading to higher quality and reducing cost of non-quality
- You act as liaison with internal Professional Services team on quality issues, and reports on quality action plans as required
- You define test-plan including reliability tests, and do analysis and reporting of performances for product under design to reach maximum test coverage and good quality
- You write Technical reports
Qualifications
- You have a master degree in Engineering, Micro-Electronic Engineering or Physics
- You have minimum 8 years of experience in Product Engineering, Customer Quality Management or Failure Analysis Management, preferably in the semiconductor or advanced technology industry
- You have a clear problem solving approach and ability to cope with complex problems by developing creative and innovative solutions
- You have a good knowledge in project management
- You are results and facts orientated
- You are autonomous
- You have leadership experience
- You can demonstrate ability to achieve results on schedule without supervision
- You can demonstrate understanding of quality (such as SPC, problem solving techniques, process improvement methods)
- You have experience with basic office software tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- You are fluent in English
- You are open to work in an R&D international environment
- You are willing to travel 10% of your work time
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent sense for Quality
E-mail
Location
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Support Engineer
Job description
Working with the companies in the micro-electronic and telecommunication industries, as well as with our TODO, the Support Engineer will have the responsibility to help our customers use technologies at their best by providing them with expert advice, training and sample solutions.
Responsibilities
- Answer support requests from customers, VAR’s, beta testers and key accounts.
- Analyze and solve customers’ problems.
- Contribute to and animate support forums.
- Write FAQ’s, application notes and KPNS.
- Prepare and maintain demos.
- Be a technical representative in meetings with customers.
- File and validate documentation, software, hardware enhancement requests.
- Test, maintain and extend trainings, code samples and demonstrators.
- Prepare the hardware and software set-up for demonstrations and trainings
- Teach trainings at SoftKinetic, at customer premises or remotely.
Qualifications
Primary skills:
- Excellent level of English
- Client-facing and communication skills
- Customer oriented
Secondary:
- Experience in working within L2/L3 support team is a plus
- Willing to travel
We are currently looking for different profiles. According to your background and knowledge, we have different products you can work on (work for one specific product or for several products):
For the sensors:
- Ability to guide a customer in integrating our reference design in their camera’s.
- Experience in PCB design.
- Experience in thermal, mechanical design, optics and laser diodes is a plus.
For the cameras’:
- A good understanding of camera optics and sensors ( ideally 3D )
- A good understanding of video, audio USB devices on windows and Linux
- Experience with failure hardware/software analysis.
For the iisu middleware:
- Technical background in IT and software development.
- Good skills in C, C++, C#.
- Experience with openGL, Flash or Unity is a plus
- Experience in game development is a plus
- Experience with Linux is a plus
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent people skills
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
System Validation Engineer
Job description
You will be involved in the definition, automation and execution of the system validation of our state-of-the-art innovative products, starting from the System specifications, including hardware and software components, and covering the integration of our sensors, cameras with drivers, and iisu middleware and tools, you will set up and maintain the Product Test Plan. Your focus is on System level integration testing, whereby you will rely but also cooperate with Sub-system validation engineers, validating the sensors, camera, and middleware on its own. Automation of your tests is key, aiming at efficient testing with high coverage and easy regression testing. You will be responsible to architecture, implement and validate your automated test-environment. You will also be responsible to run test-campaigns for validating the products and report on quality metrics and bugs towards the product design teams.
We offer you the opportunity to gain multidisciplinary experience by being exposed to the system level specification of our products (hw/sw) and cooperating with the different hw and sw design teams in the company. We provide in-house training and give you opportunities to follow courses relevant for the job description.
As a system validation engineer, you will also be exposed to the end-products and platforms of our customers in which our products must be integrated and validated.
Responsibilities
- Define system test plans based on the system specs
- Architecture, implement, and validate automated test-environments to allow fast and high-quality testing of products, and easy and to-the-point reporting
- Advise the architecture and design engineer to increase the overall system testability
- Run validation campaigns of our products, also including integration into customer platforms
- Be the gate-keeper to release high-quality products in time; report bugs and problems in timely manner to the System Validation Manager and the Design teams to allow for corrective actions prior to release.
- Maintenance and regression testing on updates of released products.
Qualifications
Primary Skills
- License/master in electronic engineering, computer science, ICT
- Experience in system (hw/sw) design and validation
- Experience in test automation and regression testing
- Experience in Methodologies and Tools for System design and validation, and their pragmatic deployment
- Practical knowledge in relevant programming languages and tools (C/C++/C#…), scripting languages and OS (perl/,… Windows/Linux/..), databases and analysis tools (advanced xls/…) for storage and reporting, bug tracking tools (CQ/Jira/… ), version control tools (CC/Git/…)
- An analytical mind and strong commitment to quality is necessary.
- Quality minded, structured and rigorous approach, sense for detail but still encompassing the full system
- Knowledgeable on both hardware and software design aspects, able to technically communicate to as well hardware as software designers
- Good and to-the-point (technical) reporting skills
- Passionate about System, Software and Hardware development
- Team spirit and social skills, motivated to work as part of a dynamic, ambitious team
- Good English
Secondary
- Knowledge in 3d system/hw/sw design and programming a plus
- Knowledge on chip design and validation
- Knowledge on camera electronic (hardware, firmware and embedded software) and mechanical design
- Knowledge on software design
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent sense for Quality
E-mail
Location
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
IC Test & Automation Engineer
Job description
You will be involved in the characterization and testing of our state-of-the-art innovative sensor ICs and the definition of hardware and software for automated test deployment. You will review device specifications of our sensor ICs and build and maintain Test Specifications and Test Plans to challenge the physical implementation. You will make and analyze test statistics and monitor production test lines. Automation of your tests is key, aiming at efficient testing with high coverage and easy regression testing. You will be responsible to architecture, implement and validate your automated test-environment. You will also be responsible to run test-campaigns for validating the products and report on quality metrics and bugs towards the sensor design teams.
As test engineer you will be involved in the early phases of the device specification to review the testability and test coverage of new devices.
We offer you the opportunity to gain multidisciplinary experience by being exposed to the core sensor technology and sensor design as well as the impact of sensor performance on system level specification of our products (HW/SW). You will be cooperating with the different HW and SW design teams in the company. We provide in-house training and give you opportunities to follow courses relevant for the job description.
Responsibilities
- Define sensor test specifications and test plans based on the sensor device specs
- Architecture, implement, and validate automated test-environments to allow fast and high-quality testing of products, and easy and to-the-point reporting
- Advise the architecture and design engineer to increase the overall sensor testability
- Run validation campaigns of our sensors, also including integration into system level
- Be the gate-keeper to release high-quality sensor products in time; report bugs and problems in timely manner to the Test and Validation Manager and the Design teams to allow for corrective actions prior to launch.
- Statistical analysis of test data and yield analysis and optimization.
Qualifications
Primary Skills
- License/master in electronic engineering, computer science, ICT
- Experience in IC test and validation ; knowledge of IC design ( hardware, embedded software )
- Experience in test automation and regression testing
- Experience in Methodologies and Tools for System design and validation, and their pragmatic deployment
- Experience in Hardware Description Languages such as VHDL or Verilog
- Practical knowledge in relevant programming languages and tools (C/C++/C#…), scripting languages and OS (perl/,… Windows/Linux/..), databases and analysis tools (advanced xls/…) for storage and reporting, bug tracking tools (CQ/Jira/… ), version control tools (CC/Git/…)
- An analytical mind and strong commitment to quality is necessary.
- Quality minded, structured and rigorous approach and a sense for detail
- Knowledgeable on both hardware and software design aspects, able to technically communicate to as well hardware as software designers
- Good and to-the-point (technical) reporting skills
- Passionate about Testing, Software and Hardware development
- Team spirit and social skills, motivated to work as part of a dynamic, ambitious team
- Good mastery of the English language
Secondary
- Knowledge in 3d system/HW/SW design and programming a plus
- Knowledge on system design and validation
- Knowledge on camera electronic (hardware, firmware and embedded software) and mechanical design
- Knowledge on software design
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent sense for Quality
E-mail
Location
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Camera Logistics and Test Engineer
Job description
You will be involved in the Camera Team (covering R&D and Product Development) and the QA Team. You will follow up on the internal and external logistics of electronic products, in particular state-of-the-art pioneering real-time 3D depth sensing modules. You will be responsible for the full process of small-scale in-house production cycles, including test and characterisation measurements, and sending finished products to customers.
***Stock management, keeping track of deliveries***.
Responsibilities
- Owner of internal and external logistics
- Run Test Applications on prototypes and small-scale production batches
Qualifications
- We are looking for a motivated junior professional, meeting the following requirements:
- Professional Bachelor in Electronics Sense for detail
- Handy, hands-on and self-organised
- Problem-solving oriented, initiative driven
- Strong commitment to quality
- Good speaking and understanding of English
- Team spirit, social skills and a broad interest in technology are recommended since you will be working in a multidisciplinary team of hardware and software engineers.
Extra-informations
Package & Benefits
- Attractive compensation package dependant on candidate experience
E-mail
Location
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
3D Camera Hardware Engineer
Job description
You will be involved in our projects focusing on designing, debugging and testing new electronic products, in particular state-of-the-art pioneering real-time 3D depth sensing cameras combining IR, RGB, Depth and Voice technologies in embedded systems. This involves designing/optimizing electronica circuits and architectures, testing out new components to add new vision features to the camera and to lower the BOM cost, as well as redesigning and miniaturizing existing designs. You will leverage your expertise to boost time-to-market of the camera products with teams in Europe and in Asia.
Responsibilities
- Research, design prototypes & verify new components for integration into next-gen 3D cameras, RGB/Z/Voice/IR.
- Integrating new components into existing designs.
- Miniaturizing existing designs and ensuring design compliance with physical constraints.
- Research, design and test out new components for integration of next-gen 3D cameras.
- Industrialize existing designs, certify designs for regulatory requirements (EMC, USB, etc).
- Produce accurate and concise technical reports and design documentation.
- Assist the project management in project follow-up and customer contacts.
- Provide feed-back to design team.
- Maintaining the BOM.
- Speeding up the time-to-market of the camera products with teams in Europe & Asia.
Qualifications
- Practical experience with mixed signal and power electronics techniques
- Experience in image video processing
- Master degree is preferred
- Experience on PCB design for consumer electronics is a plus
- Experience on camera and IR systems is an added plus
- Programming skills are a plus (labview, c/c++, …)
- Knowledge of VHDL/VERILOG and FPGA programming is of added value
- Excellent speaking and understanding of English
- An analytical mind and strong commitment to quality
- Problem-solving oriented, initiative driven
- Goal oriented and innovative approach to problem solving
- Ability to deal with problems involving several unknown variables in standardized situations
- Job might include short trips abroad for training and/or cooperation with clients and/or partners mostly in USA and ASIA.
- Team spirit, social skills and a broad interest in technology are recommended since you will be working in a multidisciplinary team of hardware and software engineers.
Extra-informations
Package & Benefits
- Attractive compensation package dependant on candidate experience.
E-mail
Location
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Digital IC Design Engineer
Job description
You will be involved in our projects focusing on designing new electronic products, in particular state-of-the-art pioneering real-time CMOS 3D depth sensors. Your main focus will be on the design of advanced digital circuits for digital and mixed-signal ASICs.
We offer you the opportunity to gain multidisciplinary experience with advanced mixed-signal, digital and system design and to cooperate with major microelectronics companies all over the world. We provide in-house training and give you opportunities to follow courses relevant for the job description.
This involves front-end design, verification and testing of new and existing functions for image sensing and image processing ASICs. You will leverage your expertise to increase time-to-market of SoftKinetic Sensor products with teams in Europe and in Asia.
Responsibilities
- Defining digital architecture
- Being able to drive a robust and efficient design methodology
- Digital Design, verification & testing of digital IP related to Image Sensors and Image processing.
- Verification of sensor functionality and performance
- Follow-up and involvement of probe and final test development
- Speeding up the time-to-market for sensor products with teams in Europe & Asia.
Qualifications
We are looking for a strongly motivated and experienced professional, meeting the following requirements:
- Strong command of English.
- Master’s Degree required.
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in micro- electronics or related industries.
- Previous digital and mixed-signal design experience.
- Knowledge of digital design methodologies tools such as Cadence, NCSim, Encounter is required
- Knowledge of mathematical tools such as Matlab is an advantage.
- Knowledge of systemC or systemVerilog is an advantage
- Team spirit and social skills are recommended since you will be working in design teams to successfully complete challenging IC and sensor system design projects.
- An analytical mind and strong commitment to quality is necessary. You are able to work automously and give initiatives.
Extra-informations
Package & Benefits
- Attractive compensation package dependent on candidate experience
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
PCB Design Engineer
Job description
You will be involved in our projects focusing on designing, debugging and testing PCBs for new electronic products, in particular state-of-the-art pioneering real-time 3D depth sensing modules. This involves all aspects of PCB design including the design of new systems, as well as redesigning and miniaturizing existing designs. You will be working with advanced in-house tools and equipment, as well as with external partners in Belgium, Europe and Asia.
Responsibilities
- Integrate new components into existing designs.
- Improving existing designs, ensuring design compliance with physical constraints.
- Designing new PCBs for the camera and sensor teams in Brussels.
- Taking ownership of relations with subcontractors in Europe, following up on and reviewing external designs.
- Testing design boards & modules upon arrival, assisting sensor and camera test team.
- Implementing schematical changes. Providing feed-back to design team.
- Producing accurate and concise technical reports & design documentation.
- Assisting the Project Management in project follow-ups and customer contacts.
- Speeding up the time-to-market of products with teams in Europe and in Asia.
Qualifications
We are looking for a strongly motivated and experienced professional, meeting the following requirements:
- Practical experience with mixed signal and power electronics techniques
- Experience on PCB design for consumer electronics
- Experience on camera and IR systems is an added plus
- Excellent speaking and understanding of English
- An analytical mind and strong commitment to quality
- Problem-solving oriented, initiative driven
- Team spirit, social skills and a broad interest in technology are recommended since you will be working in a multidisciplinary team of hardware and software engineers.
Extra-informations
Package & Benefits
- Attractive compensation package dependant on candidate experience
E-mail
Location
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Software Engineer in 3D Cameras
Job description
You will be involved in our projects focusing on the software part of designing new electronic products, in particular state-of-the-art pioneering real-time 3D depth sensing cameras combining IR, RGB, Depth and Voice technologies in cameras and embedded systems. This involves designing new software, firmware and other tools to add new vision features to the camera and to lower the BOM cost, as well as redesigning and improving existing systems. You will leverage your expertise to boost time-to-market of the 3D RGB/Z/Voice camera products with teams in Europe and in Asia.
Responsibilities
- Your main focus will be on developing and maintaining Microsoft Windows and Linux versions of device drivers and cross-platform (Windows and Linux) libraries.
- You may also assist in the development of small- to mid-scale GUI applications.
- Development of multi-environment embedded systems to integrate our various algorithms on different embedded technologies for camera systems, TV/STB and hand held systems.
- Provide feed-back to design team.
- Produce accurate and concise technical reports and design documentation.
- Assist the Project Management in project follow-up and customer contacts.
- Speeding up time-to-market of products with teams in Europe and Asia.
Qualifications
We are looking for a strongly motivated and experienced professional, meeting the following requirements:
- Degree in software or electrical engineering with a good knowledge of C and C++
- 3 to 5 years of experience.
- Master degree is preferred.
- Experience with Microsoft Frameworks and API’s and/or writing device drivers for Microsoft Windows is of added value.
- Experience in embedded systems or with multimedia devices is a plus.
- Knowledge of Linux, the QT Framework or C# is a plus.
- Excellent command of English.
- An analytical mind and strong commitment to quality.
- Problem-solving oriented, initiative driven.
Extra-informations
Personality
- Open to creativity
- Able to quickly adapt to new situations / technologies - dynamic environment
- Open minded, friendly, self-evaluating and having a great sense of responsibility
- Passionate about technology and innovations
- Excellent people skills
E-mail
Address
- SoftKinetic S.A.,
15 Boulevard de la Plaine,
1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Studios
Senior Designer
Job description
SoftKinetic Studios is looking for bright, talented and enthusiastic Senior Designer with a passion for games and experience of creating gameplay that is imaginative, emotive and absorbing. The right candidate should be able to demonstrate an in depth knowledge of game creation from both a creative and technical standpoint.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Creative Director this person will be responsible for:
- Owning the design for the core game mechanics of innovative and ground breaking motion controlled projects
- Conceptualizing, prototyping, communicating, and documenting both high and low level designs
- Collaborating closely with the team to ensure the vision, energy and momentum are maintained
- Ensuring ultra-high quality user experience regardless of platform
Qualifications
- 5+ years minimum industry experience
- At least 2 concept-to-ship production cycles in a Senior or Lead design role on high-profile games
- Ability to interpret design requests and translate them into clear and concise specifications
- Ability to be adaptable and jump in where needed
- Excellent spoken/written communication skills in English
- Must relocate to Belgium
Extra-information
Email
Website
Address
- SoftKinetic Studios S.A.,
151 Chaussée de Bruxelles,
6040 Jumet, Belgium.
Documents to provide
- Cover letter, resume and portfolio
Animation and Physics Engineer
Job description
SoftKinetic Studios is looking for talented candidates to help pushing the limit of animation techniques to drive 3D avatars based on Kinect-like 3D cameras.
Ideal applicants should have a good experience of animation techniques, physics engines and gesture middleware and understanding how to combine it altogether to produce natural and immersive character animations.
This position is also open for junior programmers with a strong mathematical and 3D programming background and passionate about CG character animation techniques. Candidates must be able to present a project with skeletal animation, physics, procedural animation or inverse kinematics.
Responsibilities
- Researching and implementing new animation techniques.
- Designing modules to help integrating advanced animation techniques in products.
- Analyzing animation requirements for games and interactive products.
- Design and implement tools and pipeline for artists to work with these techniques.
- Studying evolution of techniques both in the industry and research community.
- Providing expertise with physics engines used in the game industry.
Qualifications
Primary Skills:
- Master of Computer Science or equivalent or professional experience to compensate.
- Experience with advanced animation techniques (procedural, IK, physics based).
- Experience with Havok, PhysX, Bullet, Morpheme or Euphoria.
- Strong mathematical, geometrical and 3D programming skills.
- Strong C++ and Object Oriented Programming skills.
- Excellent code quality, readability, and respect of coding guidelines.
- Strong design and refactoring skills.
- Good communicator and works well in a collaborative team environment.
- Creative problem solver, rigorous work ethic and proactive.
- Good verbal and written English level.
Secondary:
- Professional experience in the game industry or research community.
- Experience applying research papers covering advanced animation techniques.
- Gesture based application programming experience (Eye Toy, Wii, Kinect).
- Passionate about video games and gesture based interactions.
Extra-information
Type of contract
Email
Website
Address
- SoftKinetic Studios S.A.,
151 Chaussée de Bruxelles,
6040 Jumet, Belgium.
Documents to provide
- Cover letter, resume and portfolio
Tools and Engine Programmer
Job description
SoftKinetic Studios is looking to take its innovative engine and toolset to the next level in order to continuously enhance team efficiency in building new games and interactive products for various platforms.
Qualified applicants must have a good experience and understanding of the game development process and techniques used in the game industry. The right candidate should be able to design great technology and editing environment with the satisfaction of the production team in mind. He should be aware of the current generation of game engines and tools that are leading the market and follow latest trends in production tools.
Based on the experience of the candidate this position could be changed to a senior or a lead position.
Qualifications
Primary Skills:
- Master of Computer Science or equivalent or professional experience to compensate.
- Strong C++ and Object Oriented Programming skills.
- Excellent code quality, readability, and respect of coding guidelines.
- Strong design and refactoring skills.
- Applied knowledge of the techniques used in video game development.
- Experience in tools and engine development.
- Strong mathematical, geometrical and 3D programming skills.
- Good communicator and works well in a collaborative team environment.
- Creative problem solver, rigorous work ethic and proactive.
- Good verbal and written English level.
Secondary:
- Professional experience in the game industry.
- Development experience on next-gen consoles (XBox360, PS3, Wii).
- Experience with advanced animation techniques (procedural, IK, physics based).
- Experience in scripting, visual scripting or cinematic tools.
- Good knowledge of DirectX and OpenGL API.
- Applied knowledge of profiling, debugging and optimization techniques.
- Gesture based application programming experience (Eye Toy, Wii, Kinect).
- Passionate about video games and gesture based interactions.
Extra-information
Type of contract
Email
Website
Address
- SoftKinetic Studios S.A.,
151 Chaussée de Bruxelles,
6040 Jumet, Belgium.
Documents to provide
- Cover letter, resume and portfolio
Software Engineer
Job description
Softkinetic Studios is looking for experienced Software Engineer interested in pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment, focusing on developing experiences using natural gesture recognition. Softkinetic Studios is a pioneer in 3D natural gesture recognition, and the first studio in the world solely dedicated to bring these experiences to market...regardless of the platform. We feel this is an exciting turning point in our industry, and we're looking for the right individual who shares our passion to join our team. We're looking for an experienced software generalist inspired to work on a variety of tasks from gameplay, tools, technology, and everything in between. Qualified applicants must have good experience\understanding of the game development process and strong prototyping skills.
Responsibilities
Primary Skills:
- The Software Engineer reports directly to the Lead Programmer
Qualifications
Primary Skills:
- Master of Computer Science/BA or BS degree or equivalent, or at least demonstrate through portfolio to exceed industry standards.
- 3+ years of professional experience in the game industry.
- Strong C++ and Object Oriented Programming skills.
- Excellent code quality, readability, and respect of coding guidelines.
- Strong design and refactoring skills.
- Applied knowledge of the techniques used in video game development.
- Strong mathematical, geometrical and 3D programming skills.
- Development experience on next-gen consoles (XBox360, PS3, Wii).
- Good communicator and works well in a collaborative team environment.
- Creative problem solver, rigorous work ethic, takes initiative.
- Good English level (verbally and written).
- Passionate about video games and gesture based interactions.
Secondary:
- Good knowledge of rendering techniques like shaders, lighting and shadows.
- Development experience on next-gen consoles (XBox360, PS3, Wii).
- Experience working with research papers.
- Experience with advanced animation techniques (procedural, IK, physics based).
- Good knowledge of DirectX and OpenGL API.
- Programming experience with Linux and MacOS.
- Gesture based application programming experience (Eye Toy, Wii, Kinect).
Extra-information
Type of contract
Email
Website
Address
- SoftKinetic Studios S.A.,
151 Chaussée de Bruxelles,
6040 Jumet, Belgium.
Documents to provide
- Cover letter, resume and portfolio
Lead Programmer
Job description
To reinforce the management of our fast growing development team, we are looking for an experienced Lead Programmer who will assume the responsibility of an ambitious and multiplatform project.
Under the direction of the Technical Director, your mission will be to supervise and optimize the work of the development team associated to this project. You will help defining the design and the technical solutions for this project, you will organize project priorities for the development while being at the same time a model of an excellent and devoted programmer who communicates his motivation and dynamism to the whole team.
Responsibilities
- Ensure project development is done in time and under budget.
- Optimize development team effort to make best products.
- Update managers with project status and risks regularly.
- Help development teams to solve identified programming difficulties.
- Encourage team collaboration and communication between all actors.
Qualifications
Primary Skills:
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in the game industry.
- Very good mastery of the techniques used in video game development.
- Development experience of next-gen consoles (XBox360, PS3, Wii).
- Ability to motivate and mobilize a team.
- Excellent communication skills and team integration.
- Enterprising, proactive, productive, persevering and great sense of responsibility.
- Very good english level (read, write and meetings).
- Master of computer science or License or equivalent.
Secondary:
- Significant experience as Lead Programmer.
- Experience in the full development cycle of published titles.
- Professional experience on titles based on Kinect, PS Move or Wii.
Extra-information
Type of contract
Email
Website
Address
- SoftKinetic Studios S.A.,
151 Chaussée de Bruxelles,
6040 Jumet, Belgium.
Documents to provide
- Cover letter, resume and portfolio
US
Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE)
Job description
SoftKinetic, Inc. is looking for a uniquely-qualified FAE in our consumer electronics business to provide top-notch support and applications engineering to our key customers. Our customers are OEMs and ODMs developing with and deploying SoftKinetic's proprietary 3D Time-of-Flight sensor as well as optical components, IR light sources, device drivers, gesture middleware and applications, all required for mass volume production.
Responsibilities
- Provide field applications and technical support to SoftKinetic key consumer customers.
- Assist customers in their technical evaluation of gesture products under consideration and give technical presentations.
- Assist customer’s implementation of SoftKinetic supplied cameras, SDKs and gaming engines at the customer site.
- Understand the products thoroughly and in order to answer customers’ questions regarding the products, providing timely and accurate information.
- Work with the sales team and provide pre- and post-sales technical support.
- Act as the technical liaison between the development teams and the customer.
- Create customized application solutions in hardware and software as needed.
- Write application notes, user guides, articles, design ideas, new product proposals, and evaluation kit manuscripts for internal and/or external publication.
- Travel to customer locations worldwide is required.
Qualification
- BSEE/CS (MSEE/CS preferred) or equivalent
- 5 to 7 years of experience in consumer products engineering, including FAE experience
- Solid understanding of hardware & software systems
- Ability to adapt to changing customer needs
- Good customer skills
- Proficient in using computer languages and libraries including Visual C++
- Excellent analytical ability and problem solving skills
- Knowledge of computer image processing, computer vision algorithms and game programming is a plus
- Good leadership and communication skills
Contact Information
Please send your resume to USjobs@softkinetic.com and write "Sr. FAE - Consumer Products" in the subject field.
Email
Address
- SoftKinetic U.S.A.,
440N Wolfe Road,
Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA.
Documents to provide
Type of contract
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