Senior Hardware Verification Engineer

Pioneer hardware quality and robustness

Are you ready to engineer the future of quality? Join us as our new Senior Hardware Verification Engineer and play a pivotal role in ensuring the exceptional quality of our analytical solutions for the global food and agriculture industries. At FOSS, we are committed to developing the world's leading analytical solutions, and rigorous testing is key to our mission. In this senior position, your work will directly ensure the integrity and performance of every product we develop, from initial concept through final production.

Your everyday: breaking hardware to build it better

You will become part of the Test & Verification team, a group responsible for the reliability and legal testing of our products. Working in dynamic, cross-functional development teams, you will deliver new analytical solutions to the global market. You will work in close partnership with the Instrument Development Project Team and the Test Project Manager to plan project deliveries and ensure we create meaningful test strategies that add real value to the R&D phase.

Hands-on test execution

On a practical level, your day-to-day work in the lab will follow the entire test lifecycle:

You develop test protocols.
You procure components and build test setups.
You monitor ongoing tests.
You conclude, analyze, and report on test results.

How you will make an impact

Your role is dedicated entirely to R&D design validation, where you will drive stability, technical excellence, and hardware robustness throughout the early development lifecycle. In this collaborative environment, you will:

Ensure Reliability: Design and execute rigorous HALT/ALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing / Accelerated Life Testing) protocols to expose design limits and guarantee the long-term robustness of our instruments.
Investigate Limits: Conduct thorough corner case testing to identify unpredictable system behaviors and deliberately break prototypes under extreme or unusual operational conditions before they ever reach production.
Collaborate across teams: Work closely with hardware engineers, software developers, and measurement chain experts to define testing requirements strategies.
Influence design: Participate actively in design reviews to provide critical input on hardware testability, influencing the product design from an early stage.
Solve complex issues: Drive issue resolution by identifying and diagnosing hardware defects and conducting root cause analysis for test failures.
Drive innovation: Stay updated on the latest hardware testing methodologies and tools to improve our processes continuously.

The engineering mindset we need

You are a naturally curious engineer who loves finding the breaking points in complex systems. You thrive in complex technical environments and are an exceptional communicator. Your technical toolkit likely includes:

A Master's degree in Electrical, Mechatronic, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
Solid experience in R&D hardware test design and validation, preferably from the low-volume electronics or technology industry.
Strong knowledge of Arduino is a must, allowing you to build agile test fixtures, automate data collection, and create custom hardware interfaces rapidly.
A strong multidisciplinary background, combining a solid understanding of electronics, mechanics, and programming to build and automate advanced test setups.
A great understanding of the R&D product lifecycle and how early design validation contributes to a robust product.
Fluency in spoken and written English is required. It is a strong plus if you can also communicate in spoken Danish.

Engineering with purpose

FOSS contributes to the sustainable use of our planet’s agricultural resources and, in turn, to the nutrition and health of people worldwide. We make it our business to build analytical solutions that add value by improving food quality and optimizing production. Are you ready to break things so we can build them better? We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Contact

For further information about the position, please get in touch with Jonas Andersen, Head of Quality Engineering, at joan@foss.dk.

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive and diverse culture. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo and age in your application

Ansættelsestype: Permanent

Hjemmearbejde: Not disclosed

Ugentlig arbejdstid: Full-time

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.