Sensor Engineer Advanced Technologies
Are you a highly motivated individual eager to explore the frontiers of innovative materials and their applications? We provide an ideal environment for you to grow, innovate, and contribute to cutting-edge projects that truly make a difference.
We offer you the opportunity to implement and expand your innovative ideas in a specialized, future-oriented company. This position enables you to work with our customers, our different departments and external partners as well as suppliers.
Your Responsibilities:
* Lead and execute R&D projects focused on innovative materials and technologies, overseeing the entire product development process from idea conception to eventual industrialization.
* Develop and optimize new smart materials for various products and applications, specifically sensors and actuators.
* Prototype and materialize proof of concepts, encompassing the design, realization, and implementation of mechanical, electronic, and software components.
* Design and construct test setups to evaluate, study, test, and optimize smart materials and their applications.
* Employ modeling, simulation techniques, and data analysis to describe material behavior, refine performance models, and enhance material applications.
* Manage the operational execution of development projects, ensuring timely delivery of results while considering market needs, competitiveness, scalability, intellectual property, and profitability.
* Create and manage a network of internal and external partners, including development partners (academic or industrial), suppliers, and subcontractors.
* Interact with customers and support commercial and business development activities in the area of new products and technologies.
* Support technology scouting and innovation management activities.
Our Requirements:
* MSc or PhD in electronics, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, or a similar field.
* Strong prototyping skills, with experience in programming (Python, C/C++), 3D printing, PCB design, and hands-on creation of mechatronics devices and systems.
* Experience in scientific experimentation, data analysis, reporting, and knowledge of measurement technology.
* Creative mindset with a passion for innovation and technology.
* Highly driven, technically curious, result-oriented, and proactive.
* Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain internal and external networks.
* Fluency in English (written and oral, level C2), a good command of German is an advantage.