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Staff Physicist – Product System Integration
| Company | IonQ |
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| Location | Bothell, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $147336 – $192901 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Master’s or PhD degree in optical engineering, electrical engineering, applied physics or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in quantum control or sensing preferably of trapped ions or neutral atoms
- Experience with either JavaScript or Python programming
- Strong desire to be hands-on, with ability to spend the majority of your time working on hardware and systems with the team and being involved at all levels of detail.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical lead on the Product Engineering team for test, integration and commissioning of the quantum computers.
- Build the tools and processes and documentation to expedite validation and verification of current and future products
- Contribute to the system design, modeling, assembly, and characterization of a trapped ion quantum computer
- Measure and analyze data on the performance of a trapped ion quantum computer
- Use holistic system knowledge and data to identify root cause functional and performance deficiencies and work with different subsystem engineering teams to remediate and improve overall system excellence.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience aligning and characterizing diffraction limited optical systems and interferometers
- 10+ years of experience leading full-lifecycle development of complex optical systems and experiments.
- Experience with concepts and methods of manufacturing and testing of complex software-controlled optomechanical systems
- Experience working with ion traps or ultra-cold neutral atoms, ultra-high vacuum, and cryogenic systems.
