Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Engineer

FPGA Engineer - Build the Vision Systems Europe Doesn't Have Yet

📍 The Hague · €60,000- €80,000 + equity!

🔧 SystemVerilog / VHDL · MIPI CSI-2 · LVDS · real-time image processing pipelines · EU sovereign FPGAs (NanoXplore, Cologne Chip GateMate)

You've spent years getting RTL to behave. Timing closure, clock domain crossings, the quiet satisfaction of a pipeline that holds at latency when it has no business doing so.

Now picture that work actually mattering. Not disappearing into another consumer gadget, but going into hardware a European team is building from the ground up to stand entirely on its own.

This is a defence-tech company in the Netherlands developing AI-driven navigation and machine vision systems fully in-house. Proprietary hardware, proprietary software, no reliance on foreign or restricted components. Around 20-25 serious engineers from aerospace, microelectronics and embedded backgrounds. Real deployment timelines, not slideware.

🌍 Work on genuinely sovereign technology - the kind Europe currently has to import or go without

🔬 Own the FPGA subsystem end to end, from RTL through to hardware validated in the field

🎥 Build real-time vision pipelines that feed live imagery straight into deployed systems

⚡ Direct line to the founding team, flat structure, zero corporate drag

📈 Early stock program and a front-row seat as this scales

What you'll be doing

🎯 Developing, integrating and verifying IP blocks on EU-manufactured FPGAs

📡 Implementing MIPI CSI-2 receivers reading from thermal, low-light and standard camera modalities

🖥️ Driving processed video out to display via the right output interface (MIPI DSI / LVDS)

🧩 Owning simulation, timing closure and on-hardware validation

🤝 Working shoulder to shoulder with optics, sensor and embedded software teams on interfaces and requirements

You'll love this if...

✅ You've taken designs from RTL all the way to validated hardware

✅ MIPI, LVDS and real-time image processing pipelines are home turf

✅ You'd rather own a whole subsystem than a thin slice of one

✅ Low-power, resource-constrained design is a puzzle you enjoy, not a constraint you tolerate

✅ You want your work to count for something

One thing worth flagging up front: this role requires NATO-friendly citizenship or a valid EU work permit.

Because great teams are Built Different.