Intended start of employment: Nov/Dec 2021
Intended working time: Full-time, 40h/week

Your tasks:

• You will develop high-quality electronic solutions for our Scanning Probe Microscopes. That includes design and implementation of electronic components, boards, complete devices and FPGA/µC firmware.
• You will define and implement standard procedures for verifying the functionality of our electronic devices in-house and at the customer's premises. Eventually, you will provide a toolset and comprehensive documentation to support such procedures.
• You will enhance and optimize our existing products.
• You will be a competent contact person for sales, production and suppliers.
• You will create and maintain expressive documentation on electronic components, devices and your work in general.
• You will participate in the preparation of project risk assessments.

Your profile and qualifications:

• You have an academic degree in electronics or a comparable qualification with applicable experience.
• You have sound practical experience in designing, calculating, implementing and verifying complex electronic circuits, components and devices.
• You know how to design ultra-low noise electronics.
• You have experience in programming Xilinx FPGAs using plain VHDL, HLS (Xilinx/Vivado) and Matlab/Simulink.
• Ideally you have already been in touch with embedded systems, analog circuitry and high-speed digital design.
• You are open-minded and willing to dive deeply into unfamiliar topics. You are especially eager to gain expert knowledge of AFM physics and principles, because this is a fundamental prerequisite.
• You can both work independently and in a multidisciplinary team, are a reliable coworker, make constructive suggestions on technical problems and strive for high quality.
• You show a confident appearance, social skills, team spirit and flexibility.
• You are willing to travel on occasion, supporting customers and partners and representing the company.
• You have profound German and English skills, both spoken and written.