fortiss GmbH

Job Offers

Business environment

Organizational structure with multiple career opportunities
New-work environment with lean hierarchies
Start-up environment or start-up like environment
Medium-sized company
Public sector
International environment

Benefits

- Allowance for company pension scheme
- Home office
- Subsidy for local public transport or Germany ticket
- Special annual payment in accordance with TV-L
- Remuneration according to TV-L
- Modern premises with ergonomic equipment
- Health care
- Further training opportunities
- Language course (German and English)

Medium size enterprise: up to 249 employees

founding year

2009

Our accelerators, incubators, hubs and / or labs

We offer guided tours at our Highlight Towers Lab office, which give an insight into our different research areas.

Language competence required

Deutsch: Elementary speech application (A1 / A2)
Advanced language use (B1)
Englisch: Elementary speech application (A1 / A2)
Advanced language use (B1)
Self-guided speech application (B2)
Expert language skills (C1)
Further language skills are not required

Education qualifications:

Bachelor
Master’s Degree
Promotion
PhD

We are specifically looking for the following location(s)

Remote:

No

We are looking for employees with the following professional & functional competence profile

Autonomous driving
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 02d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 02e
Management (without leadership experience) – 02f
Management (with leadership experience) – 02g

Research & Development
Management (with leadership experience) -46g
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) -46d
Professional (experience > 3 years) -46e
Management (without leadership experience) -46f

Internet of Things (IoT)
Management (with leadership experience) – 19g
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 19d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 19e
Management (without leadership experience) – 19f

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Management (with leadership experience) – 08g
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 08d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 08e
Management (without leadership experience) – 08f

Digital transformation (innovations)
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 11d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 11e
Management (without leadership experience) – 11f
Management (with leadership experience) – 11g

E-Mobility
Management (with leadership experience) -43g
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) -43d
Professional (experience > 3 years) -43e
Management (without leadership experience) -43f

Electrical engineering and information technology
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 14d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 14e
Management (without leadership experience) – 14f
Management (with leadership experience) – 14g

Engineering (others)
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 18d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 18e
Management (without leadership experience) – 18f
Management (with leadership experience) – 18g

Software engineering / software development / coding
Management (with leadership experience) – 33g
Entry (afterfurther training) – 33c
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 33d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 33e
Management (without leadership experience) – 33f

Robotics
Entry (after studies with < 3 years of work experience) – 35d
Professional (experience > 3 years) – 35e
Management (without leadership experience) – 35f
Management (with leadership experience) – 35g

We are looking for employees for the following fields of activity

Development
Research
Process Planning / Process Management
Strategy & Planning
Supply Chain Management
Therapy

We are looking for employees for the following specific topics and specialist areas

Content participation

fortiss GmbH

Prof. Dr. Sofia Rute
Kompetenzfeldleiterin Industrial Internet of Things, fortiss GmbH
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Career-MeetUp at the exhibitors boothEN

13/10/2023 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM

MeetUp at the exhibitor stand | Stand H.02

Thread / thematic series: Mentoring & Networking, Science, Engineering, Digitalization & Technology

Joblevel: Career entry, Professional, Lateral entry

Research Career in STEM: Communications Engineering Hot topics, Challenges and Opportunities
The meet up focuses on the benefits and relevancy of pursuing a research career in Science, Technology, Engineering (STEM), and how success can be achieved, based on examples derived from the scientific field of communications engineering. To help you understand and navigate your career, some topics to be addressed are: How to start a research career in communications engineering? What are the differences between an academic and an industrial research career? What are the current communications hot topics? Should I develop a Ph.D. to be successful in research? What opportunities are there after the Ph.D.? Where to get mentoring?

Details about the speaker Prof. Dr. Sofia Rute
Vita: Rute C. Sofia (PhD 2004) is the Industrial IoT Head at fortiss - research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems. She is also an Invited Associate Professor of University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, and an Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Rute's research background has been developed on industrial and on academic context. She was a co-founder of the COPELABS research unit, and the COPELABS scientific director (2013-2017), where she was a Senior Researcher (2010-2019). She has co-founded the Portuguese startup Senception Lda (2013-2019), a startup focused on personal communication platforms. Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; Edge computing; in-network computing; network mining. Rute holds over 80 peer-reviewed publications in her fields of expertise, and 9 patents. She is an ACM Europe Councilor; an ACM Senior member; an IEEE Senior Member. She was an IEEE ComSoc N2Women Awards co-chair (2020-2021). Before fortiss, she was an Associate Professor (COPELABS/ULHT, wireless/user-centric networking; sensing; IoT); she co-lead as senior researcher the "Internet Architectures and Networking" area of UTM, INESC-TEC (07-10), focus on wireless/cellular network architectures and user-centric networking; she was (04-07) a senior research scientist in Siemens AG and Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH, focusing on aspects such as: fixed-mobile convergence; carrier-grade Ethernet; QoS; IPv6 interoperability. Rute holds a BEng in Informatics Engineering by Universidade de Coimbra (1995); M.Sc.(1999) and Ph.D. (2004) in Informatics by Universidade de Lisboa. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting scholar (2000-2003) at Northwestern University (ICAIR) and at University of Pennsylvania, MNLab.

Jana Kümmel
Managerin Innovationsnetzwerke, fortiss GmbH
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Future Talk at the exhibitors boothDE

12/10/2023 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM

MeetUp at the exhibitor stand | Stand H.02

Thread / thematic series: Science, Engineering, Digitalization & Technology, Start-up & Entrepreneurship

Joblevel: Professional, Leading position, Lateral entry, Startup & Entrepreneurship

Mensch-KI-Teams bieten die Grundlage für erfolgreiche Innovationen
Jana Kümmel, Managerin Innovationsnetzwerke, möchte mit interessierten Unternehmerinnen und Forscherinnen diskutieren, wie die neuesten Technologien in Unternehmen und in den verschiedensten Branchen richtig eingesetzt werden können. Im Fokus steht dabei die Frage: Wie gelingt es, Innovationen durch Mensch-zentrierte Forschung anzubahnen? Dr. Yuanting Liu, Leiterin des fortiss Kompetenzfelds Human-centered Engineering, bringt ihre Expertise zum Thema Mensch-KI-Teams in die Diskussion mit ein. Sie erklärt, wie Menschen und KI-Systeme voneinander lernen können. Und wie menschliche Kompetenzen und Fähigkeiten gezielt mit den Stärken von KI-Systemen kombiniert werden können.

Details about the speaker Jana Kümmel
Vita: M.Sc. Jana Kümmel ist als Managerin Innovationsnetzwerke bei fortiss Mittelstand zuständig für die Zusammenarbeit mit Multiplikatoren wie Verbände, Kammern und Agenturen und begleitet zahlreiche Marketingaktivitäten für den Mittelstand. Jana Kümmel moderiert außerdem Veranstaltungen sowie Workshops und verfügt über den Professional Scrum Master I. Als Betriebswirtin mit Abschluss an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und mit dem Schwerpunkt Marketing und Strategie, arbeitete sie zuvor in Singapur an der Forschungsaußenstelle der Technischen Universität München (TUM CREATE) als Projektmanagerin. Frau Dr. Yuanting Liu promovierte in Medieninformatik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Nach ihren jahrelangen Erfahrungen in der Industrie bei Siemens und der Deutschen Telekom in verschiedenen Verantwortungsbereichen leitet sie seit 2017 das Kompetenzfeld Human-centered Engineering bei der fortiss GmbH.

Continuing education

We offer professional training in the following subject areas

As part of our services, fortiss organizes SME training and education programs that delve deeply into a specific research topic highly relevant to the SME sector. These events, plus the respective content, are organized and carried out by the corresponding field of research within fortiss.
Through a series of training sessions and seminars we convey specific methods and in-depth knowledge regarding digitalization technologies and tools by focusing on those topics most relevant to companies. With a mix of theory and practice, you will be well-equipped to manage the digital transformation.
Examples: Machine learning training camp, Software excellence workshop, Industrial IoT workshop – a hands-on introduction

Products and Services

We support ENTREPRENEURS & BUSINESS FOUNDERS.

We offer the following business concepts / ideas
Spin-offs / Scientific spin-offs, Start-up and Technology Centre, Labs, Consulting / information services, Digital transformation

We offer financing of the following kind
We do not offer financing offers

We are a NETWORK, COMMUNITY, ASSOCIATION or MINISTRY.

Main focus: International, Communication, Digitalization & Technology, AI / Robotics, Intercultural

We support ENTREPRENEURS & BUSINESS FOUNDERS.