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In this role, you lead a team to develop innovative, energy-efficient hardware for deep learning algorithms, acquire industrial contracts, and continuously expand your expertise in neuromorphic systems.

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Your role in the team

  • Leadership: As a Group Lead, you will provide both technical and disciplinary leadership for the team and support your employees in planning their individual development.
  • Innovation & Technology Development: You develop new concepts for energy-efficient hardware for running deep learning algorithms, as well as for neuromorphic computing systems, and drive their implementation in forward-looking application areas.
  • Customers & Market: You are responsible for acquiring industrial contracts and securing public funding.
  • Excellence: You continuously expand your scientific expertise in memory and mixed-signal design, as well as neuromorphic system development across various application domains, and actively maintain your national and international network.
  • Strategy development: You develop a long-term, sustainable group strategy and actively contribute to strategy development at the business unit level.
  • Human Resources Management: Another key part of your responsibilities is supervising students working on theses and doctoral dissertations.
  • Scientific visibility: You present and publish your research findings at international conferences and in renowned academic journals, thereby strengthening the organization’s visibility in the scientific community.

Our expectations of you

Education

  • Qualifications: You have completed a university degree in a natural science or engineering discipline (Master’s or Diplom) and ideally hold a doctorate in physics, electrical engineering, information technology, or communications engineering.

Qualifications

  • Professional expertise: You are thoroughly familiar with the fundamentals, technologies, and applications in the following areas from your previous roles:
  • neuromorphic hardware or AI accelerators
  • non-volatile memory technologies
  • analog or mixed-signal circuits
  • Embedded Machine Learning
  • Communication & Demeanor: You have a professional presence and are confident when dealing with partners and customers. Good German and very good English skills round out your profile.

Experience

  • Leadership & Management: You have experience leading teams, at least at the project level, and bring strong leadership and management skills.

What we offer

  • We offer you a role with significant responsibility in an interdisciplinary and international research environment, as well as the opportunity to actively shape a forward-looking field of research.
  • We support you with flexible, location-independent working hours to help you balance your professional and personal life, and give you the freedom you need to shape your work.
  • The weekly working hours are 39 hours.
  • The position can also be filled on a part-time basis.
  • Employment, compensation, and benefits are based on the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD).
  • In addition, Fraunhofer may grant variable compensation components based on performance and success.
  • The position is initially limited to 2 years.
  • A long-term employment relationship is sought.

Benefits

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Dresden
    Sachsen, Germany

About your employer

The Fraunhofer Society is the largest organization for applied research in Europe. We align our research fields with people's needs: health, safety, communication, mobility, energy and the environment. We are creative and design technology. We design products, improve processes and open up new avenues.

Company size
250+ Employees
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
Industry
Science, Research

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Group Leader Neuromorphic Systems

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.