Technology Lead
Contract: Full Time/Fixed Term
Duration: 9 Months
Tyndall National Institute is an international leader in semiconductors, photonics and deep-tech research and innovation. As a leading collaborative European research institute, Tyndall is a key actor and hosting partner in the delivery of the ‘Chips for Europe Initiative’ (EU Chips Act).
Tyndall is Ireland’s leading research and innovation organisation and it is the national focal point for excellence in deep-tech research, development and graduate training at the convergence of nanotechnology, microelectronics, photonics, electronics and AI. Tyndall is recognised as an international research leader in semiconductor, chip and digital technologies, particularly as applied to the fields of Information & Communications, Health & Life Sciences, Agritech & Food Security, Energy and Climate Mitigation, emerging fields such as quantum, and novel computing paradigms.
The Institute’s key objective is to see frontier research activities having a significant impact on economic development and societal challenges in Ireland, Europe and beyond. Central to Tyndall’s mission is delivering economic impact through research excellence in partnership with industry and academia. With an annual turnover of more than €50m, the Institute has a community of over 600 researchers, engineers, support staff, postgraduate students, interns and industry researchers-in-residence.
With significant committed Irish government support, Tyndall will grow to be 1,000 people by 2030, with approximately 750 researchers, including 250 PhD students. A new 17,000 m2 research building is under development adjacent to the Cork headquarters and there are developing plans to expand Tyndall’s existing Dublin research labs and to establish other research sites within Ireland.
Tyndall’s expansion is also supported by recent national and EU funding wins for significant (M€10’s) additional research equipment across a range of areas such as semiconductor processing, microscopy, quantum technologies, heterogeneous integration, ultra-high speed optical communications and RF through THz characterisation.
About the Team
Advanced packaging is now the key technological driver for the next generation of semiconductor systems, fulfilling the massively increasing demands for high performance, power efficiency, small form factor and low-cost packages across multiple industry market sectors.
However, many technical challenges remain, from the fundamental scientific challenges of more advanced, reliable and sustainable packaging materials, cost-effective package designs and packaging process flows, to the engineering challenges of package design standardisation and process automation for high-throughput manufacturing.
Through the Photonics Packaging and Systems Integration research programme at Tyndall, we address these challenges, spanning fundamental research to pilot-scale manufacturing.
About the Role
Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork is seeking a highly motivated technology expert to manage and prepare for the creation of an advanced packaging start-up company. The company will focus on providing standardised photonic and electronic packaging technology services, supported by significant IP and technical know-how developed over many years at the Tyndall Institute. As the goal is to create the company during 2026, the successful candidate should be available to start employment within four weeks of the offer of employment being issued.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
An essential part of the role will be to take a leading position in all critical technology and related commercial aspects of the start-up evaluation and preparation process. The successful candidate will work closely with Prof. O’Brien and his packaging research team at Tyndall, with the objective of preparing and reading the critical technologies required for the spin-out company before the end of 2026. The Technology Lead shall also work closely with the newly appointed Business and Commercial Lead to manage and prepare for creation of the company.
The technology lead’s activities shall include (not exclusively):
Essential Criteria
Desirable Criteria
What We Offer
Apart from offering a position in a very successful and positive research environment, with a collaborative ethos full of diverse competencies to boost your career, we offer the following:
Terms of Employment
Contract Category: Full-Time
Contract Type: Fixed Term (9 months)
Appointment may be made on the Grade 6A Admin II Scale (B), salary € 72,044 - €91,259 per annum. Salary placement on appointment will be in accordance with the public sector pay policy.
Informal enquiries can be made in confidence Peter O’Brien.
Closing date for applications for this position is Friday, Feb 20th at 1pm.