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Join ABB and work in a team that is dedicated to creating a future where innovative digital technologies allow greater access to cleaner energy.

At ABB Future Labs we create radical innovation for our next generation solutions to industrial challenges within our fields of business. We strive to disrupt current approaches by openly exploring and combining new technologies. We create the concepts that can radically change ABB’s approach to perform business and move along the forefront of technology. If creating but also embracing trends is among your strengths, we offer a highly flexible and modern work environment based on empowerment, responsibility and trust, to allow you to make a difference - for you and for the future of ABB.

Your responsibilities

• Are you ready to change the future of our industries? We do not want to wait any longer – we create it! We solve problems that nobody ever thought of solving and if any of the below is inspiring you, get us involved and let us hear from you. Looking forward to your ideas…


• Quickly exploring big problems and their economic / scientific value around autonomous systems in industry, infrastructure, and transportation and proposing radical solutions to them


• Applying and developing new technologies, and rapidly putting together representative proof-of-concept models for demonstrating the solution in a lab environment.


• Bridging the organizational gaps for transferring radical ideas into established businesses by open collaboration and communication


• Taking responsibility and driving activities forward (or to an end / abort), working in highly capable teams with highly diverse skills and backgrounds.


• Promote the successful solutions in demonstrations to stakeholders, scientific and industrial conferences, after you have created a solid patent portfolio around the developed technologies

Your background

• Proven track record in innovation in R&D or industrial research in areas such as:


• Machine learning in industrial applications, AIgorithms or advanced control and optimization, Robotics and its industrial applications, Supporting software technologies, e.g. data science, or user interaction design


• Ability to identify, structure and evaluate industrial innovation challenges in the area of production, infrastructure and transportation, strong problem orientation


• Creativity to generate ideas and solutions going well beyond existing approaches.


• Ability to scrutinize own approaches and openly provide and handle feedback and failure, excellent risk-taking nature to leave known paths and dare new things


• Excellent self-learning capabilities to foster life-long learning in various fields and creating the ability to quickly address new fields and problems.


• Courage to think with your hands, creating tangible results quickly to mock the addressed problem.


• Above average communication skills to thrive in an international environment and company.