Senior Digital HW / FPGA Designer

This job will provide you with an opportunity to further your career alongside some of the best and most passionate technology experts from around the world in a leading company within the test, measurement and data analytics industry. You will be a strong contributor collaborating closely with colleagues from various business functions.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it’s how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

We are currently looking for an experienced FPGA design engineer for our team in Waalwijk.

Our new Senior FPGA Designer will join our R&D department as part of an international team, which is responsible for developing HBK’s new product portfolio. These products contribute to a variety of applications across technology sectors such as: Automotive, Electric Drives & Generator, Aerospace, Energy / High-Voltage, Material Testing and Service.

You will join our R&D department and will work in close cooperation with the analog, digital, firmware, software, mechanical and test design engineers, local as well as with remote teams. You will support the full lifecycle of the design phase, from concept through implementation and release including maintenance on active products. Relevant keywords are FPGA, Verilog, VHDL, Tcl scripting, high speed digital data, digital filters, DDR, PCIe, JESD204b, DMA, JTAG.

Primary responsibilities



You will be our go to engineer when it comes to FPGA development. You are an experienced expert on the job with a lot of knowledge in FPGA design and capable of setting the direction with the team. Your primary task will be to implement new innovative FPGA designs for measurement devices. Along with that comes the consulting and alignment of your coworkers located in Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands (Waalwijk), Portugal and USA.

Your daily work includes:

Development activities:

• FPGA design (both architectural and actual realization)
• Digital Signal Processing (like digital filters, linearization and scaling)
• Running and developing FPGA test benches
• Work in or adjacent to agile teams (usually Scrum)
• Documenting your designs and interfaces

Professional qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or comparable through proven experience.
• Min. 5 years of experience with FPGA development and related quality assurance.
• You have a deep understanding of digital electronics and architecture.
• Experience with digital signal processing like e.g. digital filtering, linearization and scaling.
• Experience with Xilinx, Altera and/or Microsemi development toolchains, Modelsim and Tcl scripting.
• Experienced in using development tools like Altium Designer is a plus.

Personal skills

• Good communication skills in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Team player, but also able to solve problems individually.
• Hands on, able to or used to work from prototype to production phase.
• Accurate, practical and result driven personality.
• Experience in functional leading a small development team.
• Experience in working in international located development team is a plus.

We offer

The job will provide you with an opportunity to further your career alongside some of the best and most passionate technology experts from around the world in a leading company within the test and measurement industry. You will be a strong contributor who collaborates closely with colleagues from various business functions all over the world.

At HBK, we live up to our three values: Be True, Own It and Aim High. We believe in absolute integrity – it’s how we win for stakeholders, the environment and each other. We believe in teamwork and keeping our promises – to ourselves and others. Finally, we believe in being bold and positive. This is how we perform at our best and achieve greater success.

One company – HBK

Hottinger Brüel & Kjaer GmbH (HBK) is a global leader in the field of precision test, physical measurement, analysis and data acquisition technologies. Until the end of July 2020, the companies were known as Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik GmbH (HBM) and Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement A/S respectively.

HBK is a subsidiary of Spectris plc and employs around 3,000 people worldwide. Our product range includes solutions for the entire measurement chain from virtual to physical testing. We have production facilities in Germany, Denmark, USA, China, the United Kingdom and Portugal and are represented in over 80 countries worldwide. The product portfolio is as versatile and varied as our customer segment. We are proud to one of the top three suppliers worldwide in all market segments served, thanks to our employees and our top products.

Application deadline

Please submit your application and CV by using the direct application link.

Please note that we will be conducting interviews on an ongoing basis.