Metasurface Design Engineer - 1089

The role

You will design, simulate and test metasurface and diffractive optical components for integrated optical systems. The work delivers and collects light in next-generation quantum computers, and you will help build better design and analysis methods using high performance computing.

What you will do

• Take part in a multidisciplinary team of physicists and engineers supporting commercial and research quantum computing systems
• Design, simulate and evaluate metasurface and diffractive optical components in integrated optical systems
• Deliver and collect light in next-generation quantum computer systems
• Develop improved methods for design and analysis, using HPC capabilities

Required qualifications

• Master's degree minimum
• At least 6 years of experience (advanced degree included) with design and simulation of metasurface and diffractive photonics components and systems
• Must be a U.S. person: U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or granted asylum or refugee status, due to contractual requirements

Nice to have

• Ph.D. in Optics, Physics, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Experience with photonic simulation tools such as FDTD, FEM and RCWA
• Experience with scientific coding, data analysis and visualization in Python and Matlab
• Experience with computational methods for inverse design and optimization
• Experience with high performance computing
• Experience with or knowledge of optical systems, principles and testing of photonic devices
• Experience with or knowledge of nanofabrication of metasurface and diffractive optics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a record of published results
• Ability to communicate clearly across team members with diverse technical experience
• Ability to work within a high-performing team

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and work on groundbreaking technology
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employer-subsidized medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match and student loan repayment benefit
• Equity opportunities
• Generous paid time off, sick leave and 12 paid holidays a year
• Paid parental leave
• Employee discount programs

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person under export control rules for this role
• All applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no deadline

About the company

Quantinuum is a quantum computing company with more than 800 employees, headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Singapore. It delivers a full stack platform for deployable quantum computing.