Electronics Engineer (D/F/M)

QphoX is looking for an Electronics Engineer to join us in developing and building our quantum modem. In order to achieve our mission, we are looking for enthusiastic candidates with engineering skills and resourcefulness.

Joining a dynamic team with a rich diversity of backgrounds and nationalities, you'll be at the forefront of developing the next generation of devices aimed at elevating their performance to new heights. With access to cutting-edge methodologies and state-of-the-art tools, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our technology.

You will be involved in:

• Designing, developing, and building supporting hardware for our microwave to optical transducers
• Integrating photonics components and their control methods to our hardware products
• Upgrading embedded hardware and working with Python scripts to interact with this hardware
• Overall maintenance of our products
• Managing projects and communicating results
• Working in a diverse and multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists

Skills and knowledge you will bring to QphoX:

• BSc/MSc with at least 2 years of practical experience
• Proven knowledge and experience using schematic capture and PCB design software like Altium
• Experience working with photonic components such as lasers, modulators (EOM, AOM), photodiodes, polarizers, beamsplitters, etc
• Programming with Python for data acquisition, measurement and/or analysis
• Programming with C / C++ and/or embedded programming is a plus
• Designing for manufacturing and design for testing knowledge
• Simulation, design and debugging of analog and digital circuits
• Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers, scientists and technicians with a wide range of expertise
• Good organizational and planning skills to achieve set goals on time
• Capacity to learn new tools and techniques

Supplementary skills set:

• Experience with analog and digital converters, amplifiers, passive/active filtering, frequency mixing, and low noise design techniques
• Understanding of microwave engineering principles
• Working knowledge of control systems and signal processing
• Experience designing hardware for scalability and robustness
• Strong background in particularly (but not limited to) sectors such as photonics, mechatronics, telecommunications or robotics.

Our Ideal Candidate:

You are excited and passionate about scientific work. You are self-motivated and independent on your projects and have a sense of your responsibilities while being able to learn new tools and techniques. You would be excited to work at the intersection between embedded, electronics, experimental physics, and measurements.

Teamwork is an essential value of our company, hence fitting into the team is crucial. Finally, they would have to feel positive working in fast-paced learning environment.

We strongly encourage people of any underrepresented group to apply as we are committed to diversity and work to build an inclusive environment where all people, regardless of gender, race, religion, or background, can thrive.

Benefits and other perks of working with us:

• Competitive salary
• Employment stock ownership plan
• End-year performance-based bonus
• 25 days of holidays on a full-time basis
• Career growth opportunities
• Opportunities to network and connect

About us:

At QphoX we strive to be an inclusive place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to learn, to live their passion and do their best work.

We are dedicated to promoting equality, creating a safe environment for everyone, and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, socioeconomic background and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different. We truly think diversity is a strength and working in a diverse environment, and being exposed to a variety of perspectives makes us stronger as a team and better human beings.