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About this role
Role Overview
- Strengthen and accelerate technology development by connecting deep technical understanding with practical implementation
- Work hands-on with materials and processes to understand their behavior, identify limitations, and define improvements
- Drive and support development initiatives, from material improvements and new processing approaches to solving complex challenges impacting performance, reliability, and scalability
- Take ownership of selected R&D projects, shaping direction, defining experiments at a high level, and ensuring progress from idea to validated results
- Translate new concepts into solutions that work in practice and align with production needs
- Collaborate closely with R&D Director and entire R&D team
Requirements
- A PhD in physics, materials science, or a related field
- Around 10+ years of experience working with advanced materials or processes in a relevant industry (e.g. photovoltaics, semiconductors, coatings, or similar)
- Experience working with emerging technologies where design rules are not yet fully established, ideally in a start-up environment scaling new technology toward commercialization where you had the leading role in defining the technology
- Had in-depth conversations and thought about solutions for the entire (up
- and downstream) supply chain in previous positions, solving complex problems in unexpected ways
- Excellent communication skills and fluency in English
- An interest in the technology beyond the technical, bordering the philosophical
Benefits
- Secure employment with pension and insurance benefits
- Yearly wellness allowance
- Friendly company culture where collaboration, innovation and sustainability are at our core