Job Description

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 for Lightsteering 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 also helping to shape a robust CI/CD framework for hardware development. Your responsibilities will evolve to include:

• Ensuring long‑term hardware reliability through systematic maintenance of the PCBA portfolio, including field‑issue resolution, production‑support tasks, and proactive obsolescence management.
• Defining components and updating schematics as part of sustaining engineering and lifecycle improvements.
• Performing signal‑ and power‑integrity simulations to validate changes and ensure continued compliance with performance and quality requirements.
• Building, bringing up, and debugging prototype systems, with a strong focus on validating fixes, improvements, and maintenance actions.
• Supporting the setup of a CI/CD frameworkfor hardware—helping automate build, test, validation, and regression processes for electronics.
• Collaborating with EMS partners to set up and maintain industrialization flows and test systems, ensuring stable, repeatable production over the entire product lifecycle
• 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:

• MSc or BSc relevant to electronics or hardware development
• 2-4 years of experience with high-speed and/or control electronics design and tooling
• Passionate and knowledgeable within hardware development, design principles and practices (DfM,DfEMC,DfT...), mathematics and physics

• Experience with EDA tools and digital simulation software (Mentor Graphics, HyperLynx,…)

• You are practical and hands-on with debugging tools and technics

• You are a team player, who can work autonomously in an international team
• You have a good knowledge of English verbal and in writing
• Familiarity with standard and custom high-speed serial interfaces and embedded system development is a plus
• Strong desire to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges
• 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:

• A competitive salary package based on experience
• Group insurance
• Health insurance
• Meal vouchers
• Hybrid working culture
• 20 legal holidays + 12 compensation days
• Continuous learning opportunities
• A modern and state-of-the-art working environment