Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering: Research and Development in Lisbon Employer Ranking

Arriving, I braced for a rigid research environment, but the collaboration and openness here surprised me in the best way. It is a place where technical staff are treated as genuine partners in the work, and that makes a real difference.”

Expected a purely transactional research post, found instead a collegial, genuinely inventive environment where people help each other solve hard problems — it made the years here worth it.”

Leaving after several years, what stays with me is how much colleagues invested in making difficult projects work and how much room there was to learn across teams.”

What drew me in was the stated commitment to research excellence, and what kept me was the everyday decency of the people here. Change can feel bumpy at times, but the shared purpose is genuine and the colleagues make it worth the effort.”