Research Associate (m/f/d) - Head of KIAS (Engineer - Electrical Engineering)

The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is one of Germany's most powerful research institutions as an excellence university. Founded in 1828, it is today a globally connected, regionally anchored leading university that aims to make innovative contributions to solving global challenges. In research and teaching, it combines engineering and natural sciences with the humanities, social sciences, and medicine. This nationally outstanding diversity of subjects enables the university to promote interdisciplinarity and bring science to society. TUD sees itself as a modern employer and aims to offer all employees in teaching, research, technology, and administration attractive working conditions, thereby promoting, developing, and integrating their potential. TUD stands for a university culture characterized by openness to the world, appreciation, joy of innovation, and participation. It understands diversity as a cultural self-evident truth and a quality criterion of an excellence university. Accordingly, we welcome all applicants who wish to commit themselves, through their performance and personality, to our success and with us.

At the Fakultät Elektrotechnik, Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, at the Deutsche Telekom Professur für Kommunikationsnetze, a project position is to be filled as of 01.01.2027, subject to the availability of funds, as a

Research Associate (m/f/d) Head of the Application Center for Communication for Critical Infrastructure and Autonomous Systems – KIAS (E 13 TV-L if personal requirements are met)

until 31.12.2029 (employment duration according to § 2 (2) WissZeitVG).

Tasks:

• scientific research and development activities
• strategic management of the consortium: taking overall responsibility for the implementation of the KIAS project, ensuring the achievement of technical, temporal, and financial goals
• coordination of the consortium partners: conducting regular consortium and project management meetings, organizing network meetings, milestones, and reporting. Ensuring efficient cooperation between the scientific, industrial, and application-oriented as well as associated partners
• monitoring technical developments; ensuring the application relevance and market readiness orientation of the solutions
• implementation of the transfer process of research results into practice; building and maintaining the national transfer ecosystem, involving SMEs and public users (e.g., fire department, police, energy suppliers); ensuring the sustainability and scalability of the developed solutions
• creation and maintenance of project and risk management, creation of reports for the funding agency (e.g., BMDS), compliance with project planning and budget control
• public relations and network building: representing the project at national and international conferences, press and media work, building cooperation with other research institutions, industrial partners, and political decision-makers

Requirements:

• academic university degree in the field of Elektrotechnik, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Informatik, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Betriebswirtschaft
• demonstrable at least 3 years of professional experience
• strong communicative and technical competencies, pronounced team and leadership skills as well as experience in working with industry, authorities, and users
• high level of initiative, structured way of working, and pronounced problem-solving competence
• good English skills (at least C1) for international cooperation and reporting

We offer:

• opportunity for interesting and independent work in a flat hierarchy in an open-minded team and supportive atmosphere
• integration into a committed team
• flexible working hours
• 30 vacation days per year (within a 5-day week)
• extensive range of training and further education opportunities
• health prevention and sports offers from TUD
• a discounted Jobticket (also as Deutschlandticket)
• participation in the additional pension scheme for the public service via VBL

Further information on the application center: https://bmds.bund.de/fileadmin/BMDS/Dokumente/InnoNT_Foerderaufruf_1_20260302.pdf (https://bmds.bund.de/fileadmin/BMDS/Dokumente/InnoNT_Foerderaufruf_1_20260302.pdf)

TUD strives to increase the proportion of women and therefore expressly requests them to apply. The university is a family-friendly institution. Applications from severely disabled people are particularly welcome. In the case of equal suitability, these or those equated to them by law under SGB IX will be given preference in hiring.

Application: Please send your meaningful application with the usual documents, stating the job reference w26-194, by 31.08.2026 (the postmark of the Central Post Office or the timestamp on the TUD e-mail server applies), preferably via the TUD SecureMail portal https://securemail.tu-dresden.de (https://securemail.tu-dresden.de/) as a single PDF document to karin.domel@tu-dresden.de (https://mailto:[karin.domel@tu-dresden.de](karin.domel@tu-dresden.de)) or to:

TU Dresden, Deutsche Telekom Professur für Kommunikationsnetze, Frau Domel, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01069 Dresden.

Your application documents will not be returned; please only submit copies. Interview costs will not be covered.

TUD is a founding partner of the Forschungsallianz DRESDEN-concept e.V.

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Supplementary information: Requirements for the applicant: Advanced knowledge: Informatik, Forschung, Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Public Relations, Elektrotechnik, Wirtschaftsinformatik