Ok, I’ll finally talk about my job. I am a PhD student and I am employed by the Johannes Kepler University Linz. However I am not involved in the teaching side of university apart from supervising Bachelor and Master Theses. I am a research assistant, I don’t TA and my research is (mostly) paid for by a company called Infineon.
To be a little bit more specific: I am doing research in the field of mm-wave radar systems. I’ve had quite a good time as PhD student. Lots of interesting conferences, research directions, research questions + great researchers around me. However (hopefully) I am going to graduate soon. Which brings me to the title of this post: I am going to be looking for a new job soon (May/June)!
I can’t help it, I have to make this yet another pleading for getting an engineering degree. One of the reasons: If you were flexible regarding the exact location, getting a job as an engineer has never been a problem during the last 20 years. To give you an example: As of today I haven’t applied for a single job, but I have received 6 job offers during the last year.
Today I was invited to yet another “job interview” at Infineon. – If you believe what some people say about a major Japanese customer awarding Infineon with a design win regarding automotive radar, you could image that they’d have a few of job openings in that field, such as
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=35378&Lang=Deutsch
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=35376&Lang=Deutsch
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/students/show_job.php?ID=12913&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/students/show_job.php?ID=12915&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=35124&Lang=Deutsch
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34982&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34981&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34970&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34833&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34638&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34495&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34494&Lang=Deutsch
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=34493&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=33469&Lang=English
http://www.infineon-jobs.com/jobs/show_job.php?ID=32760&Lang=English.
Actually it was less of an interview, because they know about my background. At any rate it was an interesting discussion and they are definitely on the list of addresses when I am going to start sending out job applications in April.
If you are a talented engineer, are looking for a job, would like to shape tomorrow’s driver-assistance system or maybe even self-driving transportation systems (aka cars), and are willing to move to a nice and dynamic city, I do highly recommend taking a look at the job offers above. Please apply even if you don’t think you’re the perfect fit!