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As Front-end Technology Strategist, you will lead ASTRON's telescope front-end innovation strategy. Your role will be centred around the Smart Frontend (SFe) group's technology roadmap where you:
Together with the SFe group and senior ASTRON researchers, you align innovation in various technology domains (Antennas, RF and Digital electronics, Photonics, and Mechanics) with ASTRON's instrument vision.
Together with principal investigators and project leaders, you embed key front-end technologies within ASTRON's instruments by performing or leading architecture design studies for various instrument concepts.
You initiate, steer, and where applicable, lead, strategic acquisition to ensure that ASTRON's front-end technology portfolio meets its future instrument needs.
You can consider yourself a good match to this position if you have:
Naturally, we do not anticipate all applicants to have excelled in all these aspects. Therefore, if you identify your strengths in a collection of these, your application is most welcome.
The terms of employment are in accordance with the Dutch Collective Labour Agreement Research Institutions.
At ASTRON, we are dedicated to increasing staff diversity and creating a safe and inclusive workplace. We are especially interested in applications from women and other traditionally under-represented groups.
We offer an environment where you work alongside experts from various fields and where we have a culture of mutual support and respect. This makes the inspirational environment at ASTRON the biggest playground to innovate, where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive and grow. We constantly push the boundaries of what is technologically possible to make discoveries in radio astronomy happen. Innovations derived from our work benefit society as a whole.
On top of that, the ASTRON premises are situated in a fantastic area in the middle of a beautiful National Park. Since we are surrounded by stunning scenery our lunch walks are like vacation, where you can often see hares, fawns, and deer grazing around the building. We work where people travel to relax and enjoy their holiday!
Collaboration at our office sparks some of the best ideas and solutions to complex problems. Therefore, we work at least 60% of our time at the ASTRON premises. If you face difficulties coming to the office, we will be glad to consider exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
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