Systems Integration Engineer

Responsibilities

Shared Responsibilities

• Own technical work for the assigned track during on-site deployments, including defining scope, executing experiments or calibrations, validating results against specifications, and documenting outcomes.
• Debug failures and isolate root causes across hardware, software, and infrastructure; escalate findings and drive cross-functional resolution.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers during on-site engagements.
• Communicate results clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Monitor deployed systems and proactively respond to regressions, drift, and outages.
• Train team members and customer personnel on relevant procedures, workflows, and best practices.
• Contribute to internal tooling, documentation, and automation to improve repeatability and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with internal R&D teams to improve device performance at scale.
• Support international customer deployments through regular travel.

Systems & Integration Track

• Develop detailed experimental plans for each cooldown, including measurement scope, sequence, and success criteria.
• Characterize qubits and readout using internal tooling.
• Validate coherence, line yield, and qubit yield against project requirements.
• Debug failures across hardware, fabrication, and design.
• Provide remote support to on-site teams between deployments.

Gate Calibration & Deployment Track

• Validate single- and two-qubit gate performance using standard benchmarking techniques.
• Bring up and fine-tune gate calibrations on production devices.
• Identify and resolve systematic error sources affecting one- and two-qubit fidelity.
• Maintain, monitor, and improve automated recalibration systems for cloud-deployed processors.
• Test, validate, stage, and release new gate calibrations to production with minimal disruption to uptime.

Requirements

All Candidates

• PhD in Physics, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; or an equivalent degree with relevant industry or postdoctoral experience.
• Hands-on experience with superconducting qubit devices.
• Proficiency in Python in a scientific or engineering context.
• Strong systematic debugging skills across wiring, electronics, devices, and software.
• Comfort working in customer-facing and field environments with limited on-site infrastructure support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write experimental reports and explain results to non-specialists.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally.
• Alternatively, an MS or BS with 3+ years of relevant experience.

Systems & Integration Track

• Experience troubleshooting cryogenic microwave hardware.

Gate Calibration & Deployment Track

• Experience calibrating and characterizing one- and two-qubit gates on superconducting qubit devices.
• Strong quantitative understanding of gate error sources, including decoherence, leakage, and control distortion.
• Experience writing high-quality code and participating in formal code review with Git.

Nice to Have

Systems & Integration Track

• Experience operating and troubleshooting dilution refrigerators.
• Knowledge of qubit failure modes and their signatures, including TLS, flux noise, and packaging issues.
• Software development experience in a collaborative industrial setting, including Git, code review, and CI.
• Customer-facing or field engineering experience.

Gate Calibration & Deployment Track

• Experience with automated or scheduled recalibration systems in production or high-uptime environments.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Experience with pulse-level gate optimization, including DRAG, flux pulse shaping, and dynamical decoupling.
• Experience supporting rotational on-call or production-support schedules.
• Customer-facing or field engineering experience.