PsiQuantum
Validation Engineer, Electro-Optical Devices
Milpitas, California, United States · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- The Validation Engineer will be responsible for implementing the methods and technics to validate the performance of various electro-optical subsystems, perform measures, collect data and provide reports.
Responsibilities
- Design and build laboratory setups comprised of light sources, detector, switches
- function generators, oscilloscopes, etc. to validate design functionality of the electro-optical assemblies in cryogenic environments.
- Contribute to the development of software scripts to automatically drive the measurements setups and feed data into a database.
- Perform the measures, provide detailed reports including expected yield indications.
- Review and provide feedback to the electro-optical assembly's design team.
- Collaborate with the design and experimental teams across the company to learn from current best known methods.
- Design and build laboratory setups comprised of light sources, detector, switches; function generators, oscilloscopes, etc. to validate design functionality of the electro-optical assemblies in cryogenic environments.
- Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or above in Engineering, Physics or Material Science, and 3+ years of industry experience.
- Experience with testing in cryogenic environments.
- Experience working with optical and electrical test equipment such as optical power meters, lasers, optical spectrum analyzer (OSA), oscilloscopes, function generators (AWG), vector network analyzer (VNA).
- Experience developing test methods and optimization, tuning/calibration algorithms.
Nice to have
- Experience working with single photon detectors is preferred.
- Experience working with optical fibers, photonic integrated circuits is preferred.
Compensation
- $100,000 - $147,000 USD
- Bay Area Pay Range
- $150,000 - $177,000 USD
- The ranges below reflect the target ranges for a new hire base salary.
Benefits
- Full time roles are eligible for equity and benefits.
Company info
- Note: PsiQuantum will only reach out to you using an official PsiQuantum email address and will never ask you for bank account information as part of the interview process.
- We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.
- Base pay is only one part of the total compensation package.
- PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers-machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised.
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