Senior Program Manager EAISI

The Eindhoven Artificial Intelligent Systems Institute (EAISI) was established in the spring of 2019 as a cross-departmental institute. It has a staff consisting of a program acquisition team, a team focusing on (inter)national positioning, and a scientific team. It builds on the strengths of AI research in the Data Science Center Eindhoven (DSC/e) and the High-tech Systems Center and on ongoing collaborations among TU/e researchers.

EAISI aims to develop AI-technology for real-time autonomous decision-making, which has a direct impact on the real world. Using our traditional strengths in systems engineering and our close ties with industry, TU/e accelarates the shift towards a next generation machine-data driven intelligence, which is intimately connected to the open world through: 1) data & algorithms, 2) humans and 3) engineering systems. In other words: EAISI wants to make machines intelligent.

Visit our website for more information: https://www.eaisi.nl.

EAISI vision: “Worldwide, society faces challenges with future impact on our daily lives e.g. in the field of health, mobility and high tech systems. With Artificial Intelligence moving from “Data-only” to “Data-Human-Machine”, we aim to use our strengths to leverage the huge potential of the next generation of AI: “AI for the real world”
EAISI mission: “EAISI aims to develop AI-technology for real-time autonomous decision-making in engineering systems that interact with and support humans. Through multi-disciplinary cooperation, our know-ledge of AI in three fundamental aspects: Data/Algorithms + Humans/Ethics + Engineering. It is our ambition to create value for all people by connecting groundbreaking scientific research on these three fundamentals, translating into applications, and educating first class students. This way, EAISI contributes to regional, national and European public-private ecosystems. A key question is which type of society we want to be. EAISI aims to improve the development of meaningful technical solutions to societal challenges, via high-tech systems and robotics. We believe that TU/e can significantly contribute to speed up the AI transition with EAISI.

Inhoud van opdracht op hoofdlijnen

• Activities for the development of the TU/e Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute:
• Identifying promising national and European calls in relation to our mission and TU/e’s strength, forming consortia and managing the proposal writing process
• Drawing up scientific and industrially relevant AI research programs, together with TU/e researchers and industrial parties.
• Organize research communities around themes where AI can lead to important scientific breakthroughs
• Initiate and (co-) organize Artificial Intelligence related symposia, workshops and master classes.
• Initiate projects with industry and TU/e researchers and supervise acquisition projects.
• Acquiring large external assignments or realizing long-term cooperation agreements (> 5 years) with international partners.
• Consortium formation in the field of Artificial Intelligence, including financing from the business community and research subsidy programs
• Responsible for making a significant contribution to the formulation of the institution's strategic and long-term policies regarding the industry collaboration.

Functieprofiel en kernvaardigheden

• A MSc or PhD degree level;
• Over 10 years of comparable work experience, for example in industry, a research institute or an academic or applied science university;
• A proven track record in defining and attracting innovative research projects and funding in international consortia;
• Ability to partner-in and initiate consortium building for collaboration projects in national and European research funding programs;
• Affinity with academic research;
• Experienced leadership in industrial innovation
• A technical engineering background (e.g. Electronics, IT)
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral);
• Excellent networking skills;
• Strong analytical, organizational and negotiation skills;
• Proficiency in Dutch and English;
• Excellent interpersonal skills, team player;
• Well-organized, autonomous, flexible, service- and result oriented, deadline-driven;
• Experience with innovations and new business development;
• Extensive external network in national and international innovation and research networks with various cultural backgrounds and ability to maintain and pro-actively develop further the external network;
• Affinity with Artificial Intelligence and up to date with the latest AI trends;
• Ability to connect the academic world and international external network resulting in well balanced consortia for successful research proposals.

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Inzet

• Het betreft een uitvraag voor gemiddeld 32 tot 40 uur per week. Deze inzet is indicatief, aan deze inzet kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. De beoogde startdatum is 1 juli 2022 en de beoogde einddatum is 1 januari 2023.
• Er geldt een proefperiode van een maand, waarna de overeenkomst ter beoordeling door Opdrachtgever verlengd of beëindigd wordt, waarbij aan de beëindiging geen kosten verbonden zijn.
• Na deze initiële looptijd is er de mogelijkheid de opdracht onder gelijkblijvende voorwaarden te verlengen, tot een maximale looptijd van 2 jaar. Mochten omstandigheden daartoe aanleiding geven, dan kan de overeenkomst eventueel met wederzijds goedvinden ook na deze 2 jaar nog worden verlengd.
• Het is Inschrijver niet toegestaan om meerdere kandidaten aan te bieden voor deze inzet.
• Kandidaten zijn geen student of medewerker bij de TU/e.