PhD Position – Intelligent Ultraprecision Manufacturing Systems

100%, Zurich, temporary

The Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing (IWF) at ETH Zurich conducts basic and applied research in many areas of production engineering. It maintains close cooperation with inspire AG, the leading Swiss competence centre for technology transfer to the machine, electrical and metal industries. Led by Prof. Dr. Konrad Wegener, the fields of activity range from production machines, manufacturing processes and machine simulation to virtual reality. To strengthen our research group "Analysis" we offer the following position for young scientists (m/f).

Job description

The utilization of machine intelligence in the development of highly productive ultra-precision manufacturing machinery is the framework within which your research is positioned. At first, you will be working in the scope of an inter-academic project with the laboratory for Micro- and Nanosystems (MSN) at ETH, the laboratory for machine learning and optimization at EPFL Lausanne and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), on the development of a high-precision mechatronic manufacturing system for the serial production of carbon-nanotube sensors. For this, you will come into close contact with machine learning algorithms and leading research in the fields of nano and drive systems and work together with an excellent interdisciplinary scientific team. Within this framework, we offer a full time position in our group.

Your profile

• You meet the formal requirements for doctoral studies at ETH


• You have a master degree in mechanical or electrical engineering


• You already have experience in the field of high precision motion control


• You have a basic understanding of machine vision tools


• You have good programming skills in object oriented MATLAB or Python


• You speak fluent English and are able to express yourself in German


• You like to work independently and have high self competence


• You like to solve challenging problems

ETH Zurich

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