Senior Scientist - Power Electronics Packaging & Characterization

Senior Scientist - Power Electronics Packaging & Characterization

SAL - Silicon Austria Labs

Villach, Austria

Your future responsibilities

Together with our team of Power Electronic experts you will lead R&D projects in various application areas of power converters. As project manager you will be responsible for:

  • Contribute to R&D activities for novel test setups in the field of advanced electrical and thermal power semiconductor device and package characterization;
  • Align with other scientists and engineers to build prototypes and verify simulation results;
  • Contribute to research projects with international research and industrial partners;
  • Take on project responsibilities for successful execution of industrial research projects;
  • Continuously assessing the progress targeting given timeframe and budget;
  • Organization of work, alignment of resources and coordinate the project team as well as external collaborators;
  • Reporting internally to and externally to customers and partners;
  • Management of multi-firm consortia (typically up to 10 partners) collaborating in research projects both nationally and internationally;
  • Keep the overview and manage technical interdependencies of several project responsibilities;
  • Support of the project acquisition and thereby being constantly involved in the pushing future research topics;
  • Being sparring partner for Junior Scientist and supervise PhD and master students.

Your profile

  • A PhD degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or similar fields;
  • A solid technical understanding of electronics and particular power electronics knowledge;
  • At least 4 years working experience as researcher within the area of power electronics in one or multiple of the following research areas:
    • Power semiconductor device characterization and modelling;
    • Power electronics simulation and optimization;
    • Power semiconductor device level packaging;
    • Power electronics system integration and high density packaging.
  • Profound knowledge of state of the art electronics design and simulations tools;
  • Project Management experience is a prerequisite;
  • A proactive mindset with strong moderation skills;
  • The ability to analyze and understand complex project situations, making alleviation suggestions;
  • Knowledge on European funding landscape and contributions to funded research projects is a strong plus;
  • Convincing communication and presentation skills;
  • Excellent English skills; German is a plus.

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