Engineer Electronics
Location:
Kortrijk, BE
Electronics Engineer, Digital Cinema
Barco is the global leader in cinema technology, delivering the ultimate cinematic experience from the creative studio to the silver screen. Our groundbreaking laser projection solutions serve exhibitors, post-production professionals, and the most discerning residential clients with unparalleled image quality.
The majority of the exhibitors world wide are investing in a world-class cinema experience built on Barco’s decades of projection heritage and cutting-edge technology. Our award-winning laser portfolio reflects our commitment to excellence, evidenced by accolades like the AIS Lumiere award forLightsteering technology and other renowned Cinema Business awards. Our trophy shelf underscores our dedication to pushing the boundaries of innovation.
The Function:
Beyond the high‑level image‑processing functionalities, our world‑class cinema projectors integrate a wide range of housekeeping and power‑electronics systems required to operate and control the full platform. The Electronics team, alongside media‑server development, is responsible for the control and drive circuitry that powers fans, Peltier elements, motors, temperature‑regulation loops, liquid‑cooling systems, safety functions, and various other subsystem controllers.
To ensure these advanced systems operate reliably and efficiently, we deploy a combination of FPGAs, GPUs, and microcontrollers, each selected for their strengths in real‑time processing, signal management, and robust system control.
Are you passionate about image processing, control electronics, and the challenge of keeping complex hardware ecosystems performing at their best? At Barco Cinema, we’re growing our electronics team, and we’re looking for a driven Electronics Engineer who’s excited to dive deep into the technology behind world‑class cinema solutions.
In this role, you’ll help shape the future of our hardware platforms, but first, you’ll get hands‑on with the beating heart of our current portfolio. By supporting our team in maintaining and improving existing hardware, you’ll gain a solid understanding of the Barco Cinema hardware workflow, architecture, and lifecycle. This foundation will empower you to contribute to new developments with confidence and insight.
If you want to work with advanced electronics, thrive in a collaborative engineering environment, and enjoy solving technical challenges that keep our products running flawlessly in cinemas around the world, then this is the perfect place to grow your talent
Key responsibilities:
You will have the opportunity to grow into a role that is primarily accountable for maintaining, supporting, and continuously improving high‑performance PCBAs, while alsohelping to shape a robust CI/CD framework for hardware development. Your responsibilities will evolve to include:
1. Ensuring long‑term hardware reliability through systematic maintenance of the PCBA portfolio, including field‑issue resolution, production‑support tasks, and proactive obsolescence management.
2. Defining components and updating schematics as part of sustaining engineering and lifecycle improvements.
3. Performing signal‑ and power‑integrity simulations to validate changes and ensure continued compliance with performance and quality requirements.
4. Building, bringing up, and debugging prototype systems, with a strong focus on validating fixes, improvements, and maintenance actions.
5. Supporting the setup of a CI/CD frameworkfor hardware—helping automate build, test, validation, and regression processes for electronics.
6. Collaborating with EMS partners to set up and maintain industrialization flows and test systems, ensuring stable, repeatable production over the entire product lifecycle
7. Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional development teamsto comprehensively dissect issues, facilitating joint problem-solving, analysis, and effective issue reproduction. As a Electronics Engineer you will have close interaction with different disciplines including software, board design, thermal, mechanical and optics engineers
What is helping you to become part of our team:
8. MSc or BSc relevant to electronics or hardware development
9. 2-4 years of experience with high-speed and/or control electronics design and tooling
10. Passionate and knowledgeable within hardware development, design principles and practices (DfM,DfEMC,DfT...), mathematics and physics
11. Experience with EDA tools and digital simulation software (Mentor Graphics, HyperLynx,…)
12. You are practical and hands-on with debugging tools and technics
13. You are a team player, who can work autonomously in an international team
14. You have a good knowledge of English verbal and in writing
15. Familiarity with standard and custom high-speed serial interfaces and embedded system development is a plus
16. Strong desire to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges
17. Willing to travel occasionally to Barco locations, suppliers, or customers worldwide
Our offer:
You will work in an open and international culture.
In this stimulating and challenging environment, we offer you competitive compensation and benefits, including:
18. A competitive salary package based on experience
19. Group insurance
20. Health insurance
21. Meal vouchers
22. Hybrid working culture
23. 20 legal holidays + 12 compensation days
24. Continuous learning opportunities
25. A modern and state-of-the-art working environment
🛡️ We are committed to conducting our business activities with the highest standards of integrity, responsibility and compliance across all aspects of our operations. This includes adherence to applicable laws, regulations and internal policies related to ethical conduct, quality standards, cyber security, sustainability, data protection & confidentiality and safety.
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About Barco
At Barco, we design cutting-edge technology that enhances everyday life through advanced visual experiences.
As a global leader in collaboration and imaging, we serve the Enterprise, Healthcare, and Entertainment industries with innovative tools that empower professionals to communicate and perform at their best. With a strong commitment to quality, reliability, and sustainability, our technologies are trusted in over 90 countries.
Backed by a team of 3,+ employees, we continue to push boundaries and shape the future of digital imaging and connectivity.