Enterprise Fellow in E-Textiles Engineering

We are seeking to appoint an Enterprise Fellow as part of the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in E-Textiles Engineering. The position is part of a research team working on electronic textiles for wearable and industrial applications. The holder of this post will work on applying electronic technologies developed for integration with textiles including flexible wireless sensing circuits, RFID-based sensing technologies, and wireless power transfer technologies within e-textiles for wearable and IoT applications. This role builds upon world-leading research developed with the research team and will have a strong focus on developing the technologies towards commercial exploitation.

You will work in a large dynamic interdisciplinary team of research fellows and PhD candidates researching different aspects of e-textile systems.

A successful candidate will have:

• A PhD or equivalent experience in electronic engineering with a focus on practical electronics design skills, including PCB design for analog circuits along with experience with low-power microcontrollers such as Arm Cortex-M and MSP430 devices.
• Embedded software development experience (C/C++) as well as scripting experience in Python/Matlab (desirable).
• The ability to meet with clients and stakeholders, discuss and propose specifications/solutions and build relationships.
• An entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm for exploiting research either through spin offs or licencing and communicating technologies in writing and in-person to technical and non-technical audiences.

The post is Full Time Fixed Term (initially for 2 years) and will be held in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) (http://ecs.soton.ac.uk). ECS is the First in the UK for the volume and quality of Electrical and Electronic Engineering research with 97% of our Electrical and Electronic Engineering research outputs rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

Equality, diversity and Inclusion is central to the ethos in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. We particularly encourage women, Black, Asian and minority ethnic, LGBT and disabled applicants to apply for this position. We are committed to improving equality for women in science and have been successful in achieving an Athena SWAN bronze award in April 2020. We give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly including part-time and due consideration will be given to applicants who have taken a career break. The University has a generous maternity policy**, onsite childcare facilities

The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities. The University of Southampton is committed to sustainability and being a globally responsible university and has recently been awarded the Platinum EcoAward. Our vision is to embed the principles of sustainability into all aspects of our individual and collective work, integrating sustainable development into our business planning, policy-making, and professional activities. This commits all of our staff and students to take responsibility for managing their activities to minimise harm to the environment, whether this through switching off non-essential electrical equipment or using the recycling facilities.

To find out more about working at ECS, visit: https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/workinghere

For further information please contact Professor Steve Beeby ([email protected])

Closing Date: 29 Nov 2024

Section: Education, Research & Enterprise

Salary: £35,880 to £43,878 per annum
Full Time Fixed Term for 2 Years