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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