Principal Researcher - Quantum

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Researcher - Quantum. Location: Kongens Lyngby, Copenhagen, Denmark

Job Type:

• Full-time
• Individual Contributor
• 4 days per week in-office
• Travel: Less than 25%

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and design of a major subsystem or capability within a quantum hardware program.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs, risks, and opportunities using scientific and engineering evidence.
• Design and drive critical experiments that reduce uncertainty and support informed technical decisions.
• Maintain high standards for data quality, validation, calibration, and reproducibility;
• Translate scientific insights into practical system requirements, designs, performance targets, and execution plans.
• Partner with theory, engineering, and software teams to connect models, simulations, measurements, controls, and implementation into an integrated system.
• Work with external suppliers, technology partners, and research collaborators to advance program goals and reduce technical risks.
• Mentor scientists and engineers.
• Communicate complex technical topics to senior leaders and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to technical excellence and uphold the organization's culture and values.

Qualifications:

• Doctorate, Master's, or Bachelor's degree in Physics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading or building complex quantum architecture.
• Experience designing experiments and interpreting evidence for critical technical decisions.
• Experience with quantitative systems reasoning across physical mechanisms and architecture;
• Ability to leverage AI tools for performance modeling, analysis, research gathering, and task automation.
• Ability to evaluate AI-assisted and agentic solutions using measurable outcomes and human-in-the-loop safeguards consistent with responsible AI requirements.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements;
• Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Must meet applicable export control requirements and provide citizenship or qualifying residency documentation when required.

Preferred:

• Experience leading the architecture, development, and validation of a complex experimental, quantum, semiconductor, photonic, or other advanced physical system.
• Deep expertise in quantum hardware systems or device technologies, precision measurement and instrumentation, control, calibration, characterization systems, electronics, photonics, cryogenics, vacuum systems, RF systems, materials, integrated-system technologies, reliability, or error characterization.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical work across at least two areas including theory, hardware engineering, software, modeling or simulation, and experimental validation;
• Experience delivering a technical program involving an external supplier, technology partner, industrial research group, or academic research organization.
• Demonstrated scientific, technical, or organizational impact from external technical programs.

Benefits and Compensation:

• Typical base pay range across Denmark: kr 912,400 to kr 1,559,800 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for additional benefits and compensation.
• The role is classified as Quantum Engineering IC5.