Salary range: $57,600 - $115,200
Job type: Full time
Location: On-site (Edmonton, AB & Wetaskiwin, AB)
Job Description: Q-Block Computing is seeking an Optical Thin-Film Engineer to join our innovative team in Canada. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of cutting-edge quantum technologies in sensing, communication, and computation. The candidate will join Q-Block Computing to lead the efforts in ultra-low-loss optical thin film deposition.
Job summary: As an Optical Thin-Film Engineer, you will collaborate with other team members and achieve technical milestones under the guidance of senior leaders. Job duty includes the process optimization and characterization of ultra-low-loss optical thin films by way of reactive Ion-Beam Sputter (IBS) deposition techniques.
Responsibilities
- Optical thin film growth: Reactive IBS deposition and characterization (ellipsometry, XRD, laser-based transmission measurement, optical profilometer, AFM, SEM, photoluminescence spectroscopy, and cavity-ringdown spectroscopy).
- Cleanroom organization and maintenance.
- General shop maintenance and SOP development.
- Collaborate with cross-functional R&D teams.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing within the team.
Qualification
- Masters/PhD in Physics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years professional experience in optical thin film growth with a strong preference on IBS techniques.
Skills
- Basic knowledge of nanofabrication, optical physics, and material science.
- Ability to travel between Edmonton and Wetaskiwin facilities.
- General cleanroom maintenance and organization.
- Strong attention to detail, authenticity, and a sense of responsibility in all tasks
- Critical thinking and problem-solving mindset
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaborative in a dynamic team environment
Benefits
- Extended health care benefits (inc. dental and vision)
- Life insurance
- Overtime paid after 8 hours/day
Equal Opportunity: Q-Block Computing is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity. If you require assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please feel free to notify us.
All interested candidates are encouraged to apply.
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What We Do
We are a quantum computing startup with a long-haul perspective to commercializing quantum information devices. It is of fundamental interest for human kind to explore and manipulate the physical universe, the Hilbert space with quantum information toolboxes. In a future with a universal quantum computer, we will be able to explore the limits of what is computable in the natural world. Can we exploit information processing to make new tools with an inherent advantage? How much does nature permit us in the power of computing? This ignites our curiosity and aspiration as a species to control and understand the universe from the bottom up.
At Q-Block Computing Inc., we aspire to create Q-Block modules as the physical layer of a networked quantum architecture for computing, communication, and sensing. By controlling the quantum information stored in individual atoms with individual photons, these platforms can be applied to a wide range of applications spaces for the early adopters for communication and sensing, as well as for the realization of a fault-tolerant distributed quantum computer. With a capital-efficient business model, we will access horizontal markets in communication, defence and commerce. As a vertically integrated quantum startup, our Q-block modules are based upon the unique technological capabilities in precision optical assembly, ultrastable laser systems, quantum metrology, and quantum control of entanglement between light and matter.
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