Founded in 2020, Zadient is an innovator in advanced materials, including silicon carbide (SiC) for semiconductor applications. It is headquartered in Sainte-Hélène-du-Lac, near Chambéry, France, where it develops its new crystal growth technologies. It also has a wholly owned subsidiary, Zadient Materials Europe GmbH, headquartered in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, near Leipzig, Germany, where it produces high-purity SiC source material via the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. For more information, visit www.zadient.com .

If you have an international start-up mindset and enjoy an environment that values initiative, discipline in execution, teamwork, and inventiveness, this highly hands-on role offers a strong career trajectory as Zadient accelerates its growth.

The Knowledge Manager role is created to ensure that critical scientific and technical knowledge generated by R&D is captured, structured, traceable, accessible, and reusable throughout the product lifecycle.

1. Key Responsibilities and Activities

Knowledge Capture

• Extract tacit engineering know-how from R&D, process engineering, and pilot run operations. Whereas the content of the scientific knowledge remains the ownership of the R&D staff, the role ensures that all technical elements fostering the collective competency of the R&D team are documented.
• Structure and maintain the company’s central technical documentation base.
• Participate in lessons-learned sessions after key experiments, incidents, and project milestones. Guide and support scientists and engineers in documentation.
• Create and maintain templates, standards, and documentation frameworks for usage of scientist and engineers

Compliance

• Ensure the documentation structure properly address operational regulatory obligations.
• Be the reference for document readiness and accessibility for external audits and certifications (ISO, HAZOP, ICPE, ATEX).

Tooling & Process Governance Participation

• In cooperation with IT, contribute in selecting and implementing knowledge management and documentation tools (PLM, DMS, wiki, version control)
• Guide documentation writers in classification, access control, and versioning standards in coordination with IT

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Facilitate knowledge transfer between R&D and industrialization teams
• Contribute to R&D project governance: documentation discipline, decision traceability, and follow-up
• Develop onboarding materials that get new engineers up to speed quickly
• Support IP processes by maintaining structured patent-support documentation

2. Working Relationships

Reporting: to the CTO

Internal : You work in close collaboration with R&D scientists and engineers (knowledge capture), Operations and industrialization (process documentation), Quality (audit readiness), and IT (tooling and access control).

External : interactions include certification and audit bodies (ISO, ICPE, ATEX, HAZOP) as needed.

3. Required Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Engineering degree (Bac+5) in a relevant field: materials, process engineering, systems engineering, electronics, or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in a technical industrial environment — ideally in deep-tech, semiconductors, aerospace, energy, or advanced manufacturing
• Real technical credibility: able to understand, challenge, and synthesise complex technical information
• Knowledge of technical documentation frameworks and quality standards
• Ability to enforce structure without creating friction
• Excellent written communication in both English and French
• English mandatory, French and German are a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PLM, DMS, or wiki tools (Confluence, SharePoint, Teamcenter, or similar)
• Exposure to IP / patent processes
• Familiarity with SiC, power electronics, or semiconductor manufacturing

Typical Backgrounds

• Knowledge manager
• Simulation engineer looking to move into a knowledge-focused role
• Quality engineer with significant R&D exposure
• Senior technical writer with a strong engineering background
• Experienced project engineer in a technical industrial environment (Systems engineer or technical program manager)

4. Specific Conditions

Location: Chambery (HQ) — partial remote possible

Language : English and French, both mandatory

5. What We Offer

• Competitive salary and flexible working conditions — €40,000 to 57,000 depending on experience and profile
• Opportunity to work on the next generation of SiC - contributing to the energy transition.
• A dynamic, interdisciplinary work environment within an international team.
• Early involvement in an exciting project, with strong growth potential as the company scales.
• Opportunity to shape a function from day one — with real authority and direct access to the leadership team
• A work environment that values autonomy, encourages entrepreneurial thinking, and empowers you to take full ownership of your projects.