Quantum Hardware Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Quantum Hardware Engineer. Location: Copenhagen, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Job Type: Full-time, on-site (4 days per week in office)

Responsibilities:

• Perform advanced troubleshooting of room-temperature hardware and cryogenic systems including noise, instrumentation, and mechanical issues
• Support design, assembly, and debugging of new quantum hardware components
• Characterize and qualify hardware to meet system performance requirements
• Develop and maintain measurement and instrumentation code infrastructure;
• Conduct room temperature and cryogenic system performance testing
• Analyze, document, and communicate results of system characterization
• Improve and streamline measurement and analysis code in collaboration with teams
• Contribute to building scalable quantum computing systems, including topological quantum computing hardware

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in hardware characterization and system bring-up
• Experience programming in Python or similar high-level languages
• Experience working in version-controlled environments (Git)
• Understanding of electrical engineering design principles;
• Ability to meet security screening and export control requirements
• Ability to use AI tools for modeling, automation, and analysis

Preferred:

• Experience with RF/microwave systems including reflectometry and impedance matching
• Experience with cryogenic equipment such as dilution refrigerators or He3 cryostats
• Familiarity with low-noise electronic measurements and instrumentation
• Experience with superconducting or semiconductor quantum devices
• Experience in PCB design and hardware assembly;
• Experience in system verification, validation, and qualification workflows
• Strong documentation and technical communication skills
• Ability to work in fast-changing experimental environments

Benefits and Compensation:

• Opportunity to work on world-first quantum hardware systems
• Exposure to full-stack quantum computing development
• Work with global quantum research teams;
• Access to advanced cryogenic and RF hardware infrastructure
• AI-assisted research and engineering environment

Other Information:

• Subject to export control and security screening requirements
• Requires flexibility in a rapidly evolving research setting
• Equal opportunity employer