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Senior R&D Engineer

Leuven, Vlaanderen, be💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Lead end-to-end design, configuration, installation, and testing of sorting machines and optical systems to enhance sorting performance and product quality.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineer (R&D)

Builds

Sorting machines, vision systems, and sensor technologies for food industries

Domain

Food industry, automation, photonics, optics, spectroscopy

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

System architecture design, cross-functional project leadership, automation, vision systems, photonics, optics, spectroscopy, data analysis, Python, MATLAB

Preferred skills

Technical documentation, modular engineering approaches, stakeholder collaboration

Technologies

Python, MATLAB

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end design, configuration, installation, and testing of sorting machines; Facilitate collaboration between engineering disciplines; Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams; Support development of optical systems and sensor technologies; Contribute to system architecture decisions; Drive scalable engineering approaches through modular building blocks; Develop and maintain technical documentation; Provide technical guidance across projects; Collaborate with regional business units to understand market needs.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership

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