Project Leader Applied Physics & Mathematics

Sioux Technologies; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible 32–40 hour work week

Work from home option

28 holidays + 12 extra holidays

€6000 training budget per year

Sioux Campus & Labs access

Job summary

Sioux Group is seeking a Project Leader in Applied Physics & Mathematics to drive challenging projects from initiation to delivery. You will lead small, high-efficiency teams of 3 members and coordinate between customers and engineers across simulation, image analysis, and data analytics initiatives.

The role requires a technical degree, 4+ years in project leadership, and strong Agile/Scrum experience. English fluency and excellent communication are essential, with a hybrid work setup including

Qualifications

• You have a technical degree at a higher professional or university education level.
• You have experience in algorithm development for high-tech systems and at least 4 years of experience as a project leader or a team leader.
• You have demonstrable experiences with Agile and Scrum.
• You excel at motivating teams, assigning the right people to the right tasks, and empowering engineers to perform at their best.
• You are able to play a solid bridging role between the customer and the technical team.
• You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing, and you have excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Being end-to-end responsible for projects from initiation to delivery.
• Leading collaborative efforts between mathematicians, physicists, and econometricians.
• Steering feasibility studies and managing a portfolio's time-budget-functionality triangle.
• Acting as the essential link between customers and teams to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Translating complex challenges into breakthrough results for clients.

Skills

Algorithm development

Project leadership

Agile & Scrum

Team motivation

Customer communication

English proficiency

Education

Technical degree (higher professional or university)

Job description

As a Project Leader Applied Physics & Mathematics you are responsible for the successful realization of challenging projects in our Mathware department.

In this role you play a pivotal role in steering project teams toward delivering impactful solutions for our clients. At Mathware we have a passion for modelling in the areas of simulation, image analysis and smart data analysis. You’ll lead collaborative efforts between top-tier mathematicians, physicists, and econometricians, ensuring that technical excellence aligns with client needs. You’ll help translate complex challenges into breakthrough results, from deep learning that supports tumor margin detection, to optimizing packaging logistics for online orders.

What excites you as a Project Leader Applied Physics & Mathematics?

From our location in Eindhoven and sometimes at our clients' premises you enjoy:

• Being end-to-end responsible for projects from initiation to delivery.
• Collaborating with a group of the smartest and most enthusiastic specialists out there in small teams (approximately 3 people each).
• Managing 5 or more small-sized (up to 6 months) to medium-sized (over 1 year) R&D projects centered on innovation
• Taking the responsibility to successfully complete these projects by playing a central role in communication between the customer and the team and in achieving customer satisfaction
• Serve as the essential link between customers and teams, ensuring clear communication and successful project outcomes.
• Comprehend the business cases behind each project and proactively anticipate and address changes in organization, technology, and project scope.
• Steering feasibility studies based on several unknowns, often maneuvering in uncharted territory.
• Effortlessly juggling the regular time-budget-functionality triangle for the whole portfolio.

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Your future workplace

What do you bring to the table?

• You have a technical degree at a higher professional or university education level
• You have experience in algorithm development for high-tech systems and at least 4 years of experience as a project leader or a team leader
• You have demonstrable experiences with Agile and Scrum
• With a pragmatic approach you monitor quality while maintaining an eye on operational excellence and company’s processes
• You excel at motivating teams, assigning the right people to the right tasks, and empowering engineers to perform at their best
• You are able to play a solid bridging role between the customer and the technical team.
• You are able to deal with the customers’ ever-changing requirements and at the same time, you are able to find a balance between relenting and sticking to agreements
• You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing, and you have excellent communication skills

What can you expect in return from Sioux?

Why you want to work at Sioux:

• A flexible 32-40 hour working week, with room to work from home.
• A healthy work-life balance is very important to us, we have 28 holidays with an option to acquire an additional 12 holidays.
• You will work with passionate colleagues who share your drive for technology and business success.
• By combining our expertise in software, electronics, mechanics, mechatronics, mathematics and assembly, we make the impossible possible for our customers – working on challenging high-tech projects.
• You get a lot of freedom and responsibility; after all, you know exactly what you are doing.
• Personal coaching and a training budget of €6000 per year, so you can keep developing yourself.
• We also find it important to have fun together, this means everything from family festivals and sparkling Christmas parties, to inspiring knowledge sessions for the high-tech community.
• You will be working on the Sioux Campus in the heart of the Brainport region, with daily access to our Sioux Labs living room for lunch, sports, making music, or sharing knowledge in one of our Tech Labs.

High-Tech, High-Fun, High-Value.

We can tell you all about the typical Sioux culture and the challenging high-tech projects. About how you can develop yourself like nowhere else. But we prefer to leave this to our own colleagues.

Important note:

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the US Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R.

• 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require Sioux to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.