Ion Transport Designer - 1051

Quantinuum•Broomfield, CO

40d•$131,000 - $177,000•Onsite

About The Position

Quantinuum is seeking an Ion Transport Designer to join its engineering team in Broomfield, Colorado. The role designs, simulates, and optimizes ion-transport architectures for trapped-ion quantum computing systems. The designer develops and validates transport waveforms, trapping configurations, and electrode designs to support reliable, high-fidelity ion movement through complex devices. The work also contributes to research and development, prototype evaluation, system characterization, integration, documentation, and transition of designs into production. The designer collaborates with physicists, engineers, computational scientists, experimentalists, and software teams to identify and resolve performance limitations, improve transport efficiency, and support scalable quantum processors. The position requires a PhD and eligibility as a U.S. Person under the stated contractual requirements; additional nationality restrictions apply due to U.S. Government national security requirements.

Requirements

PhD degree minimum.
Must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or a worker granted asylum or refugee status.
Must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless also a U.S. citizen, due to U.S. Government national security requirements.

Nice To Haves

PhD in applied physics, mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
Proficiency with Python.
Experience with software management and collaboration tools and techniques.
Experience organizing and maintaining software projects or packages.
Experience working with trapped ions.
Experience with electrostatic modeling and design optimization.
Knowledge of analog filters and related techniques for system simulation.
Experience applying physical principles to optimization problems or numerical simulation.
Experience with numerical optimization techniques such as convex optimization.
Experience using HPC clusters, GPUs, or other parallel computing techniques.
Experience working with quantum computing hardware.
Teamwork and collaboration skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with published results within the candidate's research field.

Responsibilities

Perform research on cutting-edge trap transport methods.
Design and develop ion surface-trap top metal for ion trapping and transport.
Design and develop ion voltage waveforms for efficient ion transport.
Create and maintain software tools that enable key features of ion transport waveform design.
Work with computational scientists, experimentalists, and engineers to research solutions to ion-trapping and transport problems.
Communicate research results internally and externally through publications and presentations.
Contribute to prototype evaluation, system characterization, integration activities, documentation, and transition of new designs into production.
Help identify and resolve performance limitations and improve transport efficiency and scalability.