The Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics at DLR researches in the area of efficient and resource-conserving energy storage and converters with over 200 employees.
The Energy System Integration department studies fuel cell systems for aviation applications using laboratory experiments and simulations. With our interdisciplinary research and development work, we enhance the performance of fuel cell systems for future aircraft generations.

Current aircraft use conventional energy converters for propulsion and electrical power supply. This will change in the future as the development towards electric flight progresses. A major challenge is developing reliable fuel cell systems that operate with minimal resistance feedback on the aircraft.

As part of your work, you will develop and operate a fuel cell test system. For this, you will develop and analyze the overarching system requirements and derive appropriate system architectures, operating strategies, and control algorithms. You will set up and qualify relevant components and systems in a replacement environment before commissioning them in an overall system. Your innovative system architectures lay the foundation for the electrification and automation of future generations of aircraft using hydrogen and fuel cell technology.

In our department, you will become part of an agile and scientifically innovative team. You will benefit from the existing expertise and infrastructure and contribute to its continuous development as part of your activities. If you have the necessary degree of personal responsibility and share our high standards for the scientific quality of your work, we offer you the ideal environment for personal and professional development at an internationally high level.

Location is Hamburg.