Principal Manufacturing Quality Engineer

The role

Lead the manufacturing engineering and quality team for Atom's new manufacturing organization. Set the processes, tooling and quality controls for repeatable builds of neutral-atom quantum computers.

What you will do

• Lead manufacturing and process engineering, quality, reliability, and machining support
• Drive design-for-manufacturability reviews of optical, electronic, and vacuum/mechanical hardware
• Develop and qualify optical cleaning, bonding, precision assembly, and electronic build/test methods
• Design and qualify assembly, alignment, bonding, and inspection fixtures
• Capture first-of-a-kind learning in work instructions and training with controlled revisions
• Work with the Manufacturing Quality team on inspection, calibration, nonconformance, and corrective-action processes
• Lead root-cause analysis of assembly defects, alignment rework, and test failures
• Shorten build cycles through simpler assembly, better fixtures, and less rework

Required qualifications

• BS in manufacturing, mechanical, optical, or electrical engineering, physics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant technical experience
• 10+ years in manufacturing or process engineering for precision optical, electromechanical, or scientific equipment
• 3+ years managing technical teams
• Demonstrated experience taking engineering prototypes into repeat production
• Experience overseeing quality and corrective-action activities
• Strong design-for-manufacturability judgment for precision optomechanical and electronic hardware
• Working knowledge of optical bonding and alignment, vacuum/mechanical assembly, and electronic production methods
• Experience qualifying manufacturing processes, fixtures, measurement methods, and operators
• Knowledge of first-article inspection, calibration, nonconformance control, root-cause analysis, and corrective action

Nice to have

• Advanced degree
• Quantum-hardware, photonics, or atomic-instrument manufacturing experience

Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Unlimited paid time off
• 401K company matching
• Short- and long-term disability
• FSA and dependent care benefits
• Life insurance
• Drinks, snacks, and catered team lunches in the offices every day
• Annual bonus
• Equity in the company

About the company

Atom Computing builds quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms. The company is building a new manufacturing organization.