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Reliability and Safety Technical Center (RSTER)

Open Position: Smart Sensor Designer & Developer

On site

Zaventem, Belgium

Full Time

08-12-2025

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Skills

Communication Teamwork C/C++ Monitoring Test Programming Project Management C++ Analytics Embedded Systems

Job Specifications

About RSTER

RSTER improves safety, reliability, and sustainability in complex engineering systems. We work across industries such as e-mobility, renewable energy, and advanced diagnostics, offering system-level engineering, emerging-technology development, and lifecycle support. Our mission is to reduce environmental impact while increasing the reliability and performance of critical systems.

Role Overview

As Smart Sensor Designer & Developer at RSTER, you will contribute to the development of advanced sensing and monitoring solutions — designed to support high-reliability, safety-critical systems. You’ll work at the crossing point between hardware, embedded software, and system-level risk & reliability engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Design, prototype, and test sensor modules (hardware + firmware), tailored for reliability, safety, and long-term stability.
Develop signal-processing, data-acquisition, and sensor-fusion algorithms for various sensor types (environmental, inertial, power-system monitoring, etc.).
Work on embedded software using microcontrollers and wireless/communication interfaces as needed.
Perform calibration, characterization, and reliability testing to ensure sensors meet strict performance and safety standards.
Integrate sensors into broader RSTER systems and applications (e.g. e-mobility, renewable energy, system diagnostics, predictive maintenance).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (design, systems engineering, software, project management) to ensure end-to-end integration and compliance with safety/reliability goals.
Prepare documentation: schematics, firmware design, test reports, calibration data, and maintenance guidelines.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, or related field.
Proven experience with sensor technologies (environmental sensors, power-system sensors, inertial, etc.), embedded systems, and firmware development.
Strong skills in embedded C/C++ (or similar), microcontroller programming, signal conditioning, analog/digital electronics.
Experience (or willingness to learn) PCB design tools (e.g. Altium, KiCad) and sensor hardware design.
Understanding of system-level reliability and safety engineering principles is a plus (or willingness to be trained).
Interest or experience in renewable energy systems, e-mobility, power electronics or sustainable technologies — aligned with RSTER’s focus.
Good teamwork skills, ability to collaborate across disciplines.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

Experience with sensor fusion, data analytics or predictive maintenance software.
Background in model-based systems engineering (MBSE), reliability & safety analysis, failure prediction, root-cause analysis.
Familiarity with power systems, battery systems, or renewable-energy monitoring technologies.
Understanding of system-level engineering: from prototype to deployment and lifecycle support.

What RSTER Offers

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge, sustainable engineering projects — from e-mobility to renewable energy and safety-critical systems.
A culture that values reliability, safety, sustainability, and technical innovation.
Professional growth opportunities across hardware, software, system engineering, and sustainability domains.
A chance to contribute meaningfully to projects that aim to reduce environmental impact and improve system reliability across industries.

How to Apply

Send your resume and a short cover letter to: contact@rster.org

About the Company

RSTER offers cutting-edge methods for evaluating the reliability and safety of complex multi-domain engineering systems. Furthermore, RSTER has created strategic and principled methodologies for controlling the components' safe and dependable performance. Our plan is to get a good understanding of reliability and safety by finding likely failures, figuring out what caused them and what happened as a result, and determining what can be done to prevent or reduce failures over the product's life. Our targeted market contains th... Know more