Hardware Engineer – Development & Product Support (m/f/d), Full-Time

Our inductive metal sensors and hyperspectral cameras run in sorting and recycling facilities around the world, many of them for years. Keeping it that way takes someone who truly knows this hardware: new designs need to be developed and existing ones reworked, components go end-of-life, and issues from production or the field need to be traced back to their root cause.

Our strategy puts a strong focus on software and complete solutions, and our sensor hardware remains the foundation. In this role, you’re a go-to person for electronics. You work independently and closely with our product owners, the Tech Lead Hardware, our mechanical engineer, the firmware team, systems and verification engineering, and production.

This role is a great fit if you love solving problems, want to understand systems in depth, and are looking for a technical expert role.

What you’ll do

• Designs: Develop new designs and rework existing ones for our metal sensors and cameras, for example due to component obsolescence, cost, or improvements based on field experience. This covers schematics, layout, and testing.

• Testing for our new camera: Build board- and system-level tests and test setups for production for our new hyperspectral camera, which is just entering the market.

• Components & lifecycle: Monitor end-of-life notices, find alternatives and second sources, and keep bills of materials up to date in our ERP system.

• Failure analysis: Systematically get to the bottom of issues from production and the field, and define fixes that last. You’re the second-level support for our production team.

• Clean change management: Take engineering changes through review, approval, and production, together with manufacturing, purchasing, and quality.

• Knowledge sharing: Document designs, decisions, and test results so others can build on them.

What you bring

• A degree in electronics or electrical engineering (university of applied sciences, university, or equivalent)

• Several years of hands-on hardware development experience, including reworking existing designs and working on products in series production

• Strong skills in analog and mixed-signal circuit design, schematic and PCB layout, and EMC- and ESD-compliant design

• A structured approach to root-cause analysis: you enjoy lab work with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and the like, and you don’t stop at the first symptom

• Experience with sensor technology and signal conditioning

• Experience selecting components with availability, lifecycle, and cost in mind

• You take ownership of projects, set your own priorities, and ask for input when you need it

• Good German and English skills

Nice to have

• Experience with Altium Designer

• Python and/or C/C++ for measurement scripts, test setups, or debugging

• Experience with device design at both the mechanical and electronics level

• BOM management in an ERP system, plus experience with Git and Jira

What you can expect

• Products you get to know in depth and own long-term

• Real autonomy and direct access to firmware, mechanical, systems engineering, and production

• An expert role with time for thorough work instead of a constant stream of new projects

• 38.5-hour work week, flextime with no core hours, 1–2 days of remote work per week

• Individual professional development

• Meal allowance, subsidy for the Styrian KlimaTicket (regional public transit pass), free parking, company-funded retirement savings

• The minimum salary under the collective agreement for this full-time position is €3,954 gross per month (Austrian IT collective agreement, job family ST1, min. 5 years of prior experience). We pay above this depending on qualifications and experience, within a range of €3,954–5,500 gross per month.

About Headwall

Headwall develops innovative hyperspectral imaging solutions for industrial and scientific applications worldwide. At our site in Graz, we work in an international environment on technologies that help use resources more efficiently and enable sustainable decisions.

Our hiring process

• We review your application and get back to you within 1–3 days, sometimes with a short video call.

• An in-person meeting at our office with Patrick Verbeek, Head of R&D; Claus Hohensinn, TechLead Hardware & PO Metal Sensors; and Manuela Rosenzopf-Dietl, People & Culture.

• A practical part: together, we look at a board or a schematic and talk about how you approach failure analysis.

• You meet the team and see our lab and production.

• We keep you posted on the status throughout the process.