Our vision: Leading in optical sensing

Bringing intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich people’s lives. We continuously advance our industry-leading technologies in sensing, illumination and visualization to make the world safer, simpler and more efficient.

Our semiconductor business continues to expand its leading positions in relevant automotive, industrial and medial semiconductor markets. As a combined company, we hold leading positions on our core markets. In an increasingly connected world, sensing plays a crucial role in closing the gap between the physical and the digital, enabling people and machines to comprehend and interact with the world.

Setting the benchmark

Setting the industry benchmark through disruptive innovation and continuous improvement: Even the great can get better.

Imagine the impossible

Imagine the impossible

We imagine the impossible, by having a bold vision and overcome any challenges to realize it.

Agile mindset

Agile mindset

We are flexible in our way of thinking and way-of-working and quickly adapt to a changing environment.

Trust & Integrity

Trust & Integrity

We build trust to stimulate open dialogue that benefits from the diversity of thought.

One company, one team

One company, one team

We put the success and interests of the overall company above those of sub-units and individual interests.

Setting the benchmark

Setting the benchmark

Setting the industry benchmark through disruptive innovation and continuous improvement: Even the great can get better.

Our benefits

We offer our employees worldwide performance-oriented and competitive compensation along with numerous ancillary benefits. To mention just a few examples: company pension scheme, direct insurance, bonus programs, health and prevention benefits, vocational training as well as sports programs.

In addition, we grant location-specific benefits. Please ask your recruiter to tell you more about these benefits in a personal conversation.

Working from Home

We support work from home where possible and see this as a part of our culture of trust. Our working from home offer to our employees is based on the better consideration of a changing world of work and the desire for an attractive and more flexible work arrangement regarding time and location.

Your personal growth

ams OSRAM operates in a highly dynamic, agile and competitive industry. A strong focus on continuous learning and development is therefore a key competency for our company to maintain its position in the face of strong competition. Our comprehensive learning offer allows you to fully unleash your technical and personal potential. This means that you will be specifically promoted and challenged in line with your individual career aspirations: general training, personal orientation, and function-specific training or learning that focuses on improving your leadership qualities. A talent management program and regular performance reviews and feedback sessions help you to plan your career at ams OSRAM.

Attention to our employees

ams OSRAM is a large global company, but still pays close attention to the views of employees on every level. Senior executives of ams OSRAM hold regular town hall meetings, open to all employees, at all the company’s locations worldwide. We regularly carry out global surveys and invite anonymous input from employees. The company’s leadership principles are strictly enforced. ams OSRAM encourages managers to actively listen to their employees, and to seriously consider every member’s contribution. The ams OSRAM culture expects everyone to be fair, and for each person to treat others the way they want to be treated themselves.

Work-Life-Balance

We provide a large range of offers to support our employees in balancing their family and career the way that suits them best. These include flexible working models, part-time and working from home arrangements, and also child daycare.

Open Mentoring

Our Open Mentoring program promotes entrepreneurial thinking. Mentors share expertise and offer support, mentees receive valuable impetus. We encourage exchange across hierarchical levels to drive development. Mentoring creates enriching experiences for everyone involved.

Employee Groups

ams OSRAM employees enjoy the opportunity to share their ideas and work together on various topics within the scope of our employee groups. These groups are connected across locations, enabling them to discuss topics across countries and departments to generate new ideas and actively shape the culture of our company. At ams OSRAM, we benefit from our diverse workforce, bringing together different points of view and new ways of thinking. This is essential for us in order to learn from each other and drive innovation in all corporate areas.

Health

Health and safety are key prerequisites for ensuring that healthy, motivated employees contribute to the success of our company. That is why the Health and Occupational Safety organization is striving to promote the health of employees while at the same time ensuring safety at all our workplaces and in all work processes. This includes protecting our employees against any situations posing threats to their lives or hazards to their health within the scope of their work for ams OSRAM. We have also set out these goals in our EHS Guidelines (EHS – Environmental Protection, Health and Safety) which are binding for all ams OSRAM locations worldwide. Health checks, sports groups and cooperations with sports associations are just a few of the many measures we take in order to promote and maintain the health of ams OSRAM employees.

Onboarding

To give you a smooth start, we offer you a structured onboarding process – including buddies standing at your side and also experienced colleagues who support you with your new job. Furthermore, our many employee networks are ideal for making new contacts within a short time and become a part of the ams OSRAM world.

Events

As a part of ams OSRAM, you are not only part of a successful, worldwide and fast-growing company – you are a member of a wider family of people working across Europe, Asia and the US. ams OSRAM puts great effort into events and programs to bring employees together at the company’s various locations around the world. At every site, ams OSRAM organizes social activities to bring employees from all levels of the company together. For employees who enjoy sports there are many opportunities to take part in various activities together with colleagues – such as football matches, tennis tournaments, road races, skiing trips and more.

Our corporate culture

To enhance people’s lives through the infinite possibilities in sensing, illumination and visualization in order to drive innovation, develop new technologies and enter future markets. We require a corporate culture characterized by trust and integrity, the passion to win and setting the benchmark. A culture in which we imagine the impossible, decide and execute as well as empower and hold accountable.

Diversity

At ams OSRAM, we focus on diversity and inclusion to foster new ideas. Our diverse teams are the basis of our success. Career opportunities with us are independent of gender, nationality or background. We promote innovation and development in a respectful environment. Member of the Diversity Charter and PROUTATWORK.

Patents

Engineers come to work at ams OSRAM for the excitement of designing new products, technologies and solutions. Our work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which reflects in over 15,000 patents granted and applied for. Engineers at ams OSRAM develop pioneering technologies that greatly impact a broad range of markets – as one big team we shape trends and impact lives. We provide a rich set of tools, test facilities and other engineering resources to help our talented engineering teams develop industry-leading products.

Talent-oriented career paths

As a global company, we are not only involved in numerous cultures and societies, but also actively assume responsibility locally. As part of this commitment, ams OSRAM supports a variety of unique initiatives in the areas of education and science, art and culture, and social and humanitarian projects. All programs promote networks with colleagues from other functions and countries.

Female Leaders

More women at the top – this is our goal for ams OSRAM. A balanced mix of all genders in leadership positions has been proven to have a positive effect on business success and growth. With their profound expertise, female leaders contribute significantly to the success of our company. That is why we have set up specific programs to promote female leaders and advance female talents even further. To mention just one example: At the Women’s Leadership Forum, female ams OSRAM leaders from all over the world meet once a year and close ranks in order to jointly work on the development of their careers.

Social commitment

As a global company, we not only operate in different cultures and societies, but also actively take responsibility on site. Within the scope of its social commitment, ams OSRAM promotes a large number of individual initiatives in the fields of education and science, arts and culture, as well as various social and humanitarian projects.

Sustainability

We are not only striving to generate economic added value, but also to support sustainable development. Sustainability means responsibility towards our customers, employees, shareholders, the environment and society as a whole. Our approach to sustainability is the foundation of our license to operate and an enabler for future business. We understand our responsibility to improve people’s quality of life and advance health and safety while reducing the impact on our environment and making the experience even more convenient. We want to contribute towards making life better! Throughout our value chain we emphasize the careful use of resources, environmental protection, good working conditions, health and safety, and compliance with human rights. As a member of the UN Global Compact and the Responsible Business Alliance, we recognize their principles for sustainable business practices.

Our employee awards

At ams OSRAM, we focus on providing innovations in intelligent sensors and emitters . The greatest reward for us is for our employees to feel at ease in our company and contribute their skills and talents. We are of course particularly proud whenever we receive prestigious awards from external institutes and organizations, underscoring our excellence as an employer. Have a look at some examples of our recent awards.

ams OSRAM locations and workplaces

Here we show you some of our locations and workplaces. As an international high-tech company, we offer our employees the opportunity to work worldwide, e.g. in the context of assignments, international projects, our graduate program or as part of their dual studies.

Mercerville, USA

In New Jersey our Design Center is located in the town of Mercerville. Here we show you our social areas for employees to meet.

Plano, USA

Our site in Plano is located 19 miles Northeast of Historic Downtown Dallas. In recent years major corporations like Toyota, Capital One and Ericsson have made the area their home. Plano’s motto is ‘Exellence Defined,’ and its proven through our thriving economy, beautiful neighborhoods and family-friendly community.

Singapur

ams OSRAM in Singapore designs and manufactures sensor products. The company offers 3D and flow sensing, CMOS imaging, environmental, color, light, and position sensor products.

Rüschlikon, Switzerland

Our new high-tech office building is only a 15-minute drive from the Zurich city center and is located near to a forest and nature parks. With a fantastic view of Lake Zurich and the Alps, having a completely newly equipped and ergonomic interior with top-notch IT and conference rooms, we provide our employees with the most suitable workspace possible to support productivity and a pleasant work environment.

Premstätten/Graz, Austria

Our global headquarters is located on the beautiful grounds of an old Austrian castle, complete with ponds. Right next to the castle is our ultra-modern 200 mm wafer semiconductor fabrication plant (200 mm fab). This mix of historical and new, of tradition and 21st century technology, has a special appeal and is a (well-respected) key element of our culture. ams OSRAM has a workforce of about 1300 in Austria.

Shanghai, China

Our Chinese head office is located in this megacity.

Penang, Malaysia

Opto Semiconductors also has a major location in this Malaysian state. It’s our largest location worldwide and hosts development, production and administration facilities. In Penang we have a workforce of about 5,500 employees.

Wilmington, USA

Our U.S. head office with a workforce of about 270 people is based in the Middlesex County, MA near the city of Boston.

Regensburg, Germany

Our Opto Semiconductors Business Unit has its headquarters in this Bavarian city. In addition to cutting-edge production facilities, we operate our own company nursery school on the plant premises.

Munich, Germany

The Bavarian capital of Munich is home to our corporate co-headquarters, and also to research and development as well as administrative facilities.

Our business areas

The ams OSRAM Group, including the listed companies ams AG as parent company and OSRAM Licht AG, is a global leader in optical solutions. By adding intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich people’s lives. This is what we mean by Sensing is Life. With over 110 years of combined history, our core is defined by imagination, deep engineering expertise and the ability to provide global industrial capacity in sensor and light technologies. We create exciting innovations that enable our customers in the consumer, automotive, healthcare and industrial sectors maintain their competitive edge. We thereby drive innovation that meaningfully improves the quality of life in terms of health, safety and convenience, while reducing impact on the environment. Our around 22,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation across sensing, illumination and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnosis more accurate and daily moments in communication a richer experience. Our work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which is reflected in over 15,000 patents granted and applied. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) with a co-headquarter in Munich (Germany), the group achieved well over USD 5 billion combined revenues in 2020 (pro-forma).

The ams OSRAM Group, including the listed companies ams AG as parent company and OSRAM Licht AG, is a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters. By adding intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich people’s lives. Even after more than 110 years, we are still excited by what we can achieve with technology.

We bring passion to innovation day by day. We continually invest in our leading semiconductor expertise and world-class manufacturing network to live up to our reputation of reliably bringing top quality to the world of scale. Our around 21,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation across sensing, illumination and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnosis more accurate and daily moments in communication a richer experience. Our work creates technology for breakthrough applications, which is reflected in over 15,000 patents granted and applied. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) with a co-headquarter in Munich (Germany), the ams OSRAM Group creates technology for breakthrough applications in the automotive, consumer, industrial and medical markets.

The Business Unit Automotive (AM) develops, produces and sells lamps, light modules and sensor components for automotive applications in both OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and aftermarket segments. This includes conventional and LED-based solutions.
The Advanced Optical Sensors business provides market-leading sensor solutions that improve the human experience and well-being by sensing types of light both visible and invisible to the human eye. Key AOS applications include ambient light and proximity sensors; 1D Time-of-Flight, spectral sensors, bio sensors, as well as active noise cancelation (ANC).
The ams OSRAM Digital (DI) business drives the transformation of ams OSRAM’s lighting businesses. DI brings all lighting applications together – from drivers and modules to controls and software, from entertainment and industry lamps to state-of-the-art horticulture solutions and dynamic light.

The Image Sensor Solutions business aims to become the uncontested leader in optical imaging solutions extending human vision. ISS products are mainly produced in Austria and Singapore.

The ams OSRAM Opto Semiconductors business offers high-performance opto semiconductor components and in-depth support for state-of-the-art system solutions based on innovative semiconductor light sources. The Business Unit can look back on almost fifty years of production and development expertise.

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Bringing intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich people’s lives – this drives us forward. With our vision, we will advance our technologies in sensing, illumination and visualization. We imagine vital new applications that make life better for everyone – from making journeys safer, medical diagnosis more effective and daily moments a richer experience.

At ams OSRAM, your creativity has free rein to shape new products and services. You’ll discover innovative technologies in a market characterized by progress and change. We offer you rewarding career opportunities in a global company – and the opportunity to help us improve people’s lives.

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