Young professionals

Job opportunities for career starters

Have you completed your studies or training and would like to gain your first professional experience? Then Fraunhofer IOF is the right employer for you.

As a career starter, you will benefit from flexible working hours, structured onboarding, numerous training opportunities and a fixed salary in accordance with TVöD. Our experienced and highly qualified employees will support you as you start your career and introduce you to your new tasks.

In your future department, you will receive a personalised induction plan to help you settle in at the institute. In addition, you will always have contact persons in the department and at the institute who will support you with questions and problems.

Your path with us:

Doctorade

Would you like to research your own questions and problems and steer your own scientific career in the right direction? The Fraunhofer IOF is the right place for you. With us you can optimally combine your doctorate with work on current projects. You will benefit from our state-of-the-art workplaces and laboratories, opportunities to network with other doctoral candidates and researchers, as well as a fixed employment contract and salary. During your doctorate, you will be supervised by our experienced and highly qualified scientists as well as by a contact person at a university.

Research associates and postdocs

Do you want to advance your scientific career? Then a position as a research associate or postdoc at Fraunhofer IOF is ideal for you. We offer you a state-of-the-art workplace and the opportunity to work on exciting projects in science and industry. Together with our interdisciplinary research teams, you will search for answers to the fascinating and intriguing questions of the future in photonics and optics. With us, you can contribute your ideas and expertise and develop both personally and professionally.

Administrative tasks

Do you have a talent for organisation, are you good with figures or information technology? Or is your strength in communicating complex research results in an understandable way? Then you are ideally suited to the tasks in our Administration, IT and Technology or Strategy, Organisation and Communication departments. In our central departments, you can expect varied and exciting tasks to support the work of our scientific staff.