Profile R&D Materials Scientist / Engineer

The R&D Materials Scientist / Engineer will provide support or lead research projects in the broadest sense of the word. She/he will work closely together with other lab and team members to optimize and apply, develop and refine methods related to our platform technology, Flexiramics®. An important focal point for this role will be working on development of practical applications for customers and hence experience in working with a team of suppliers and/or customers is a must. In addition, we will also ask you to help in facilitating day to day activities of the business. 

Theoretical perspective:

• Strong material science background, with focus on:
• application development by linking materials characteristics to application requirements;
• developing material fabrication methods, including lab prototype setups;
• Knowledge of and experience in one or more of the following fields of expertise:
• polymer processing (preferably polyimides);
• electronic materials;
• composites and/or microfabrication;
• Basic knowledge of various characterization techniques;
• A critical look (not only on our own results, but also on the results of others);
• You can provide ideas and are able to participate in problem solving. Furthermore you are a creative thinker that can identify a wide range of possibilities to “make a project work”.

Practical perspective:

• Knowledge of the best (safe) practices in the lab / the ability to apply safe working principles in a laboratory/small production environment;
• The ability to bridge theory to practice;
• Bringing Design of Experiments into use would be considered a real benefit;
• You are precise, pay attention to details and work accurately;
• You work independently / have the ability to independently run a customer project (i.e. plan/execute/report).

Soft skill perspective:

• Team player (share expertise with and willing to learn from others);
• Flexible attitude, learning fast, fitting with life in a start/scale up (i.e. sometimes run very fast vs. supporting to general business until a project starts);
• Self-starter: look for things that can be done.

• Learn from professionals and train our employees with less experience in your fields of expertise;
• A lot of freedom in shaping a project as you feel necessary to bring it to success subject to meeting our business goals;
• An informal working environment with a healthy degree of flexibility to balance work and life;
• Compensation fitting your expertise and experience complemented with business goals related potential to grow;
• 25 vacation days, with room to freely plan these days;
• Flexible working days, we are concerned about output not with working hours.

Flexiramics is a young business spun-off from MESA+ Institute for nanotechnology. Now existing for 5 years, we are reaching a critical point in further developing our technology for small-scale production enabling final product development for at least 2 applications. Flexiramics’ core competency is in the making flexible ceramic nanofibers. Together with our engineering partners we are working hard on scaling to first production and together with our customers we co-develop products for final applications.

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