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About the Role
Title: Junior Engineer - Cryogenic Test
Headcount: 1
Location: On-site
Contract: Undetermined duration with possibility of continuation; Start: ASAP
Interview Process: 1st round interview; Feedback SLA: Weekly sync
Why Hiring:
- Workforce increase to address a team bottleneck at human resources across multiple R&D projects.
End Product:
- Quantum computing infrastructure, specifically superconducting control circuitry integrated next to qubit chips for control pulses, read-out, processing, and quantum state manipulation.
Tech/Domain Environment:
- MATLAB, Python
- Dry systems, cryostats, dilution refrigerators, and adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators (ADRs)
- Low-noise analog and digital circuits, electronic sockets
- Superconducting chips
Job Duties (6-10 bullets):
- Load superconducting chips into the cryogenic system and run test scripts manually
- Handle equipment carefully during manual R&D testing (up to 10 chips per day)
- Analyze test failure data and troubleshoot/debug non-working test runs
- Interact with circuit designers to explain testing results and anomalies
- Assist circuit designers in reproducing test issues via simulation
- Optimize the design and parameters of barely working R&D circuits
- Program test equipment to generate input signal timing diagrams from circuit designer specs
- Support exploratory debugging rather than push-button automated testing
Must Haves (hard gates; 6-12 bullets, all testable/quantified):
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Physics or Electrical Engineering
- Proficiency in writing and executing test scripts using MATLAB or Python
- Experience with electronic socket testing and low-noise analog and digital circuits
- Familiarity with testing quantum devices or superconducting chips
- Strong analytical skills for debugging non-working R&D circuits and analyzing test data
Nice to Haves (5-10 bullets):
- Familiarity with cryogenic testing, dry systems, and cryo-coolers
- Experience operating and testing in dilution refrigerators
- Experience with adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators (ADRs)
- Prior hands-on lab experience testing superconducting circuits during academic education
- Experience from organizations downsizing hardware/superconducting test teams (e.g., Northrop Grumman)
Disqualifiers (3-6 bullets):
- Expectation of purely push-button, automated testing without exploratory debugging
- Lack of programming proficiency in MATLAB or Python
Security/Clearance:
- None specified