Principal Electrical Engineer

Job Title: Principal Engineer, Electrical Engineering

Location
:
Cranbury, NJ

Division: Photonics

Department
:
Optogration, Inc.

About Us:

Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) (Nasdaq: QUBT) is an innovative, integrated photonics company that provides accessible and affordable quantum machines to the world today. QCi products are designed to operate at room temperature and low power at an affordable cost. The Company’s portfolio of core technology and products offer unique capabilities in the areas of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cyber security as well as remote sensing applications.

Position

Description:

QCi is seeking a seasoned Electrical Engineer to join a team that develops and produces world class semiconductor-based detector products for a range of applications, including quantum sensing and information processing, optical communications, remote sensing (e.g., lidar and laser range finding), and high-performance imaging. Working collaboratively with other members of the team, the successful candidate will play a crucial role in the design, development, and testing of advanced optoelectronic components, modules, and instruments based on state-of-the-art III-V linear-mode avalanche photodetectors (APDs), single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), and other compound semiconductor devices.

This individual will be responsible for the development of scalable electronics solutions for market-leading products incorporating photodetector technologies as well as photonic integrated circuits (PICs). This highly collaborative role will involve engagement of engineering resources across multiple teams of QCi’s fast-growing business.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on development of photodetector-based modules and turn-key instruments through the full NPI cycle from concept through production release.
• Define product requirements, system architectures, performance budgets, interfaces, and verification methods.
• Design low-noise, stable high-voltage supplies with protection, monitoring, calibration, and temperature compensation.
• Design and lay out high-speed mixed-signal PCBs, including grounding, shielding, signal integrity, and power integrity.
• Develop FPGA logic, embedded firmware, and digital interfaces for timing, counting, control, communications, and data acquisition.
• Develop evaluation boards, prototypes, and test fixtures to characterize detector performance and reduce technical risk.
• Perform laboratory bring-up, characterization, debugging, and verification of boards, subsystems, and turn-key instruments.
• Develop control circuitry to support PIC-based module product developments
• Design electronic circuitry for SPAD bias control for gated and free-running operation
• Collaborate with detector, optical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, quality, and internal customer teams to deliver on product objectives.
• Mentor engineers and technicians while retaining direct ownership of critical design, integration, and troubleshooting work.

Required Skills and Experience

• BS degree in EE or a related field, with at least 15–20+ years of relevant experience and the technical accomplishment expected of a high-level principal engineer.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, test, and troubleshoot complex electronic products.
• Extensive experience designing low-noise, high-speed analog and mixed-signal circuitry for weak-signal detection.
• Proficiency in schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout
• Practical FPGA and embedded-systems experience
• Strong system-design skills, including requirements definition, architecture, trade studies, performance budgeting, and component selection.
• Extensive laboratory experience using high-speed and low-noise measurement equipment for hardware characterization and debugging.
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