Senior Photonics Scientist

Senior Photonics Scientist

We are seeking a Senior Photonics Scientist in our Broomfield, CO location. Our team is developing optics and integrated photonics technologies that will enable scaling of our trapped-ion quantum computers from our current 98-qubit Helios system to our future 1,000,000-qubit Lumos system. The data, designs, and expertise from our group inform our next-generation systems, including Apollo and Lumos, from the overall architecture to the tiniest of details.

We are looking for more engineers and scientists to join our cross-disciplinary team.

All applicants for placement in safety-sensitive positions will be required to submit to a pre-employment drug test.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate to guide, coordinate, and support technical milestones, cross-group collaboration, and strategic planning to innovate on integrated photonics for trapped-ion quantum computing
• Develop and demonstrate new optical metrology testbeds to evaluate a wide range of passive and active integrated photonic materials, devices, systems, and architectures
• Contribute to and/or lead design and trade studies and analyses
• Collaborate to the development and management of detailed schedules, budgets, resource allocations, and work plans for complex R&D projects and handoff to production teams.
• Take optical metrology data to inform decisions on Apollo and Lumos system architecture, photonics design, fabrication techniques, and the performance of next-generation quantum computers.
• Collaborate and work with a cross-disciplinary team, including photonics designers, photonics scientists & engineers, optical & mechanical engineers, atomic physicists, internal and external fabrication partners
• Communicate technical results, strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress effectively within our team and to our colleagues on other technical teams, project management, leadership, and externally.

You Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree minimum
• Minimum 8 years years' experience (degree inclusive) with experimental freespace optics and/or integrated photonics
• Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status
• Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.

We Value:

• Bachelor's degree in physics, engineering, or optics
• Experience directing a technical project
• Experience leading a technical team
• Experience guiding a product from concept to delivery
• Experience collaborating across teams to drive a project to completion
• Experience working with project management to deliver technical results on time
• 4+ years experience (degree inclusive) with photonic integrated circuit testing
• 4+ years (degree inclusive) experience with optical metrology
• Experience with on-chip photonics, fiber-to-chip coupling, modulation techniques
• Exposure to nanophotonic design using photonic simulation tools such as: FDTD, FEM, or optical mode solver (Lumerical/COMSOL/RCWA/RSoft or similar tools).
• Exposure to micro- and nano-fabrication techniques (e.g., electron beam and/or photolithography, wet and dry etching, scanning electron microscopy, wafer and sample handling, and general cleanroom practices).
• 5+ years experience with scientific coding and data analysis and visualization; hardware control and automation; familiarity with commonly used software packages (e.g., MATLAB, Python, Mathematica, Origin, Igor, etc.).
• Knowledge of trapped-ion quantum computers or other quantum computing architectures.
• Strong written & oral communication skills
• Strong organizational and collaboration skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively and to facilitate the exchange of key details and concepts between team members of diverse technical experience, including with remote colleagues

$164,000 - $205,000 a year

Quantinuum is the world leader in quantum computing. The company's quantum systems deliver the highest performance across all industry benchmarks. Quantinuum's over 650 employees, including 400+ scientists and…