A development center manager. And then engineers of quality, design, test technologies. When ? “As soon as possible”. Looking at the site, you can see that there are numerous open positions for Infineon in Pavia, an obligatory choice in light of the new investment that is going to expand and strengthen the Pavia research center. Eighteen researchers five years ago, now risen to 54, with seven other engineers who accepted the offer and will enter shortly, in addition to as many open positions. The target, by the end of the year, is thus to bring the workforce to around 70 units to reach 100 within five years. Reinforcements that will serve to strengthen the activity in one of the key development areas of the group, the chips dedicated to energy control. The uses of which range from several sectors, also representing one of the development drivers for renewable energies.
“Italy – explains Peter Wawer, president of Infineon’s Industrial Power Control division – offers exceptional skills in semiconductor technology and Pavia, thanks to its university, has a great capacity in this field”. The investment concerns new spaces for laboratories and offices, with the arrival of new machinery in particular in the test area for semiconductors. The starting thousand square meters rise to 1600 but there are already negotiations to get to an altitude of 2 thousand. The crux of growth is once again that of the staff. «Here, as in Germany, the numerical mismatch of skills is real – adds the manager – but we believe we can continue to grow by involving young people. At the moment, for example, we have five students who are carrying out a period of activity within us: we are confident that many of them will decide to stay with us ».
For the multinational, 50,000 employees worldwide and 11 billion in revenues, Italy represents an important pole in research, with Pavia joining the structure dedicated to the automotive sector in Padua, where over 200 researchers work. History of growth in the territory, fortunately not isolated, within what has now become a real district of microelectronics in Pavia, built around the skills of the local university, which has made this area one of its specializations of tip. District that brings together about fifteen companies, almost all multinationals, which employ more than 500 between electronic engineers and PhDs. These numbers, however, must be updated every week. On the upside.