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Your career at RI

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Your start – your future at RI Research Instruments.

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Career

We want you!

Are you creative mind with intuition? An expert with depth? A team player with an inventive spirit?

You want to put your skills to good use, share your knowledge, and keep learning every day? Are you eager to grow in your role and leave your mark?

Then you’re exactly who we’re looking for!

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RI Research Instruments in numbers

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3 sites

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>400 employees

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>20 nationalities on the team

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30 years of innovation

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Customers in >25 countries

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Opportunities

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You'd like to contribute your expertise to RI and you're still eager to think outside the box? You are interested in participating in exciting and extraordinary projects? Then become part of our top team—in a diverse and broad-based department with long-term prospects and individual development opportunities.

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You are at the end of your studies and looking to enter the workforce? RI offers you the perfect start into the high-tech world with everything that excites students and graduates.

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Ready to kick-start your future with us? We are a training company for commercial and technical professions. It is important to us to offer you long-term prospects beyond your training and to lay the foundation for your career together.

Departments at RI

Department

Development & Engineering

If you can think it, we can build it.

In our team, people from various disciplines work together toward a common goal. In this area, for example, these include physicists, electrical engineers, mechanical designers, measurement engineers, quality engineers, and project controllers.

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Department

Production & Logistics

Where precision meets planning

In this department, we employ metalworkers, industrial mechanics, CNC milling machine operators, cutting machine operators, electricians, measurement technicians, TIG welders, precision mechanics, warehouse specialists, quality inspectors, and cleanroom technicians, among others.

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Department

Administration

Powering our progress behind the scenes.

They make sure the business runs smoothly. And they do it with a smile: our administrative team, specializing in HR, finance, purchasing, and IT.

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Stories

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Story

Christina W.

Project engineer

“The work at RI is very varied. The production of individual parts based on customer-specific requirements can also be very challenging and is only possible as part of a team. This team spirit is what makes RI stand out from my point of view."

Story

Uwe N.

CNC miller

“At RI, everyone has the opportunity to realize themselves. We have such a wide range of trades here that it's always possible to find something that suits one's abilities or interests. At RI, the top priority is always togetherness. Tasks are solved together.”

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Events and impressions

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Group photo from the carnival at RI with many colleagues in a wide variety of costumes
Selfie of a man in a green sweater with several kids holding up miniature particle accelerators. A boy is wearing a Shirt and hat with the mouse from German TV
Group photo from the “Open Doors with the Mouse” event with children, parents, and homemade particle accelerators
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Canteen hall filled to capacity at the Christmas party
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At the summer festival, people sit at tables under red parasols in bright sunshine, with bar tables next to them.
Children and parents build their own particle accelerator at a wooden table.
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The two managing directors received a decorated broom at the topping-out ceremony and pose for the camera.
Group photo of RI's HR team. Five smiling ladies, most of them with long hair and blue shirts.

We're happy to help!

Questions about working with us?

Whether you're curious about roles, culture, or the application process, our HR team is happy to help. Just reach out — we’d love to hear from you.