Hardware Design Engineer

Company Description
The Vydar Group develops advanced electronics for navigation systems for NATO-friendly nations, with a focus on strengthening European technological autonomy. The team specializes in AI-driven navigation, tracking, and detection solutions for defense applications, including missile systems, aircraft, drones, and distributed sensing networks. Vydar builds its technology entirely in-house, from proprietary hardware to software and control systems, ensuring full control over performance, security, and supply chain with no reliance on restricted or foreign components.

Team members work in a flat, collaborative, innovation-driven environment with direct access to the founding team and the opportunity to contribute to high-impact technology with real-world relevance in European defense.

As a Hardware Engineer at The Vydar Group
You will design and develop advanced hardware systems for our next-generation navigation stack, engineered for missile platforms and high-performance aircraft. You will work closely with the founding team and technical partners to take solutions from early-stage prototypes through to field deployment. Your work will span high-frequency PCB design, tight integration of ICs, sensors, and novel chip architectures, as well as the development of robust wireless communication hardware.

Daily tasks include designing and reviewing schematics and PCBs for high-frequency, high-reliability applications, performing hardware bring-up, debugging, and functional testing, executing verification and validation test plans, and integrating hardware with embedded software and firmware. You will transition designs from prototype to manufacturable, production-ready hardware, contribute to the technical roadmap and architecture decisions, and document design decisions, trade-offs, and test results.

You will join a team of 15 to 20 highly skilled engineers with backgrounds in aerospace, microelectronics, embedded hardware and software, and machine vision. This is a full-time, on-site role based in Delft.

Qualifications

Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a closely related field.

Experience designing and building high-speed communications PCBs, with proficiency in PCB design and schematic tools.

Hands‑on experience with Altium Designer.

Familiarity with embedded software and firmware development workflows.

Experience taking hardware from prototype through to production or field deployment.

Familiarity with JTAG boundary scan, Embedded Linux, U‑Boot, or Yocto is beneficial.

Good communication in English (Dutch is a plus), and the ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary teams and work on‑site in Delft.

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