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Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) is a world-leading research and development hub specializing in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The organization conducts advanced scientific research, state-of-the-art pilot-line semiconductor processing, and technological prototyping in fields spanning next-generation integrated circuits, artificial intelligence hardware, life sciences, and sustainable energy systems. By bridging academic discovery with industrial application through global corporate partnerships and R&D collaborations, the enterprise drives critical technological breakthroughs across the worldwide semiconductor and high-tech industries.
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Eight-qubit operation of a 300 mm SiMOS foundry-fabricated device
Silicon spin qubits are a promising platform for quantum computing due to their high coherence, controllability, and CMOS manufacturability, yet scalable implementations have so far been limited to a few qubits. Here, to take a step towards larger qubit s
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aistack - How many devs can you fit on a GPU?
The first article in a series digging into the real cost and technicalities of owning your own AI coding agents - on hardware you actually control.
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Quantum dot qubit using High NA EUV lithography
The most advanced lithography system, crucial for future advanced memory and computer chips, will play a key role in scaling up quantum technology.
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Industry-compatible silicon spin-qubit unit cells exceeding 99% fidelity
Among the many types of qubit presently being investigated for a future quantum computer, silicon spin qubits with millions of qubits on a single chip are uniquely positioned to enable quantum computing. However, it has not been clear whether the outstand
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Disrupting the DRAM roadmap
This technology review explains hpw 2T0C IGZO-based DRAM opens doors to high-density 3D DRAM and embedded DRAM.
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Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm pitch metal lines obtained with High NA EUV single patterning
First electrical tests at 20nm pitch present a next milestone in validating the High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning ecosystem
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Imec proposes double-row CFET for the A7 technology node
New standard cell architecture offers the most optimal trade-off between area efficiency and process complexity for logic and SRAM.
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Interfacing silicon photonics for high-density co-packaged optics
This article focuses on optical interfacing challenges for high-density co-packaged optics (CPO) applications.
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Semi-damascene metallization
Used in combination with a patternable metal such as Ru, semi-damascene promises to be RC-, area-, cost- and power-efficient, offering an interconnect scaling path.
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Imec demonstrates logic and DRAM structures using High NA
These Results confirm the readiness of the High NA EUV patterning ecosystem for enabling future logic and memory use cases.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at IMEC over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
62
Postings analysed
46
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python54%
MATLAB35%
C++13%
Verilog9%
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy4%
UVM4%
LangChain2%
LlamaIndex2%
Databases
Neo4j2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux4%
LocalAI4%
Amazon ECS2%
Azure2%
AI & ML
LLM4%
Gaussian Splatting2%
Llama2%
Mistral2%
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Full IMEC tech stack
62 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
109
83 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
21 days
faster than 51% of the market
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
22% ▼
Hardware
17% ▲
Management
15% ▼
Early Careers
12% ▲
Leadership
4% ▲
Field & Service
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+24 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+83 jobs in a week
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
10
Hiring now
10
Countries
7
Busiest office
Leuven
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Leuven
Belgium
HQ
86 open roles 86 posted in 90 days 34% engineering
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Management
Eindhoven
Netherlands
Plant / site
12 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 25% engineering
hires for Early Careers, Hardware, Security
Heilbronn
Germany
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 43% engineering
hires for Management, Hardware, AI/ML
Wageningen
Netherlands
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days
hires for Early Careers
Málaga
Spain
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Management, Field & Service
Paris
France
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Administrative
Doha
Qatar
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Management
Cambridge
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Design
Ghent
Belgium
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for Hardware
Zwijnaarde
Belgium
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Industrial Engineering
Jobs
≈ $45k – $127k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Leuven
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≈ $52k – $120k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Leuven
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≈ $58k – $135k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Ghent
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≈ $85k – $193k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Leuven
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≈ $54k – $156k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Leuven
Cadence Virtuoso
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≈ $85k – $193k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Leuven
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≈ $71k – $140k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Heilbronn
LocalAI
LLM
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≈ $41k – $111k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Leuven
Python
SQL
Neo4j
AI/ML
LangChain
LlamaIndex
AI Agents
Llama
Mistral
TensorFlow
NumPy
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
Streamlit
Hallucination
Knowledge Graph
Agentic Workflows
Copilot Studio
DevOps
Azure
Git
Linux
Unix
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≈ $54k – $156k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Leuven
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≈ $74k – $169k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • 5+ years exp • Leuven
Python
Verilog
SystemVerilog
HPC
Chips/EDA
UVM
Formal Verification
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