{"id":273932,"url":"https://alion.io/job/conductor-quantum-quantum-engineer-spin","title":"Quantum Engineer (Spin)","company":{"id":45653,"name":"Conductor Quantum","domain":"conductorquantum.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/conductor-quantum","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Work at a Startup","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":120000,"max":180000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":180000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Error Budget","optional":true},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-05T13:06:43Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T10:48:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":64,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":64},"description":"Conductor Quantum is building quantum superintelligence.\nQuantum superintelligence is an AI that uses quantum computers to surpass the capabilities of humanity's greatest minds. We are closer to that inflection point than most people realize. Frontier models are approaching general intelligence, and AI can already generate quantum circuits faster than humans can write them. The question is no longer whether quantum and AI converge; it is who builds the infrastructure to make that convergence reliable, scalable, and useful.\nThat infrastructure starts with the hardware. The biggest bottleneck in quantum computing today is not qubit count; it is the manual configuration that keeps those qubits from being usable. Our software automates calibration and operations across qubit platforms, turning raw hardware into a stable, ready-to-run platform accessible through a simple chat interface. By solving that bottleneck, we are enabling thousands, and eventually billions, of qubits to operate at scale.\nThe result is a quantum computer as easy to use as ChatGPT. The first billion users are coming. The majority, we believe, will be AI agents.\nWhy now\nToday, AI generates production code faster and more reliably than most of the world's software engineers. Code is math; math is an instruction set; an instruction set is a quantum circuit. AI is already generating quantum circuits. It just needs reliable hardware to run them on, well-calibrated qubits to use, and a feedback loop tight enough to discover new algorithms autonomously.\nThe world's most capable AI models are being pointed at B2B SaaS. We are pointing ours at the frontier of science.\nRole overview\nYou will work across the full quantum stack: from taking a chip fresh out of the foundry, all the way to hosting it online as a platform that human researchers and AI agents can build on. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role. You will define best practices, influence product strategy, and help lay the foundation for Conductor Quantum's culture and growth.\nKey responsibilities\nDevice bring-up and measurement infrastructure\nTake quantum dot devices from the lab bench to operational readiness. Perform wire bonding, device packaging, and chip mounting for cryogenic testing, and design custom printed circuit boards for signal routing and filtering. Build and maintain cryogenic measurement setups including dilution refrigerators, fridge wiring, and line testing. Specify, install, and test low-noise amplifiers, DC lines, filters, bias tees, and microwave components, and develop robust procedures for cooldowns and thermal cycling.\nDevice tuning and characterization\nTake devices from cooldown to working spin qubits. Run transport, radio-frequency reflectometry, and charge sensing measurements to identify quantum dot formation, tune gate voltages, and extract stability diagrams. Know whether the limit you are hitting is charge noise, tunnel coupling, or the readout chain.\nCalibration automation\nEncode expert tuning into software the platform runs on its own. Turn gate voltage tuning, stability diagram interpretation, and qubit calibration into routines that recover without a physicist in the room. Close the loop with the software and machine learning teams.\nSystem performance and control stack\nKeep systems stable and online. Diagnose charge rearrangement, drift between cooldowns, and fidelity degradation, and define the monitoring and recovery a spin qubit system needs to run unattended. Lead setup and scaling of the experimental lab environment, from defining requirements to speccing measurement equipment. Write or adapt control software for waveform generators, digital to analog converters, and lock-in amplifiers.\nCollaboration and system integration\nWork closely with physicists, machine learning engineers, and backend developers to integrate hardware, software, and data pipelines into a unified quantum control stack. Provide feedback on usability, stability, and performance from a hardware and systems perspective.\nFirst 30 / 60 / 90 days\n30 days\nGet fluent in the calibration software stack and understand how it maps to spin qubit hardware.\nWire bond a device, load it into the dilution fridge, and run a full cooldown.\nSit with customers and partners to see where the platform breaks down for them. Pick the friction point that annoys you most.\n60 days\nOwn a bring-up cycle end to end, from packaging to two-qubit gates.\nShip your first contribution to the automated calibration routines. Start with standard qubit calibration or two-qubit gate routines.\nFix the friction point you found in your first month, and propose the highest leverage things the team can do in spin qubits.\n90 days\nHave at least one calibration improvement in production that has moved a key metric. Time to a tuned device, coherence, and readout fidelity are examples of what we track.\nLead spin qubit operations at Conductor.\nDrive the control and calibration roadmap, including which architectures we prioritize and what measurement capabilities the lab needs.\nThe team\nWe are a small, passionate founding team of quantum physicists, hardware engineers, and machine learning experts. Our founders, Brandon and Joel, met each other at Oxford during their PhDs working on AI for quantum computing. There they saw first-hand that calibration and control is a core bottleneck to scaling quantum computers.\nThis is your opportunity to do the best work of your life as part of that founding team.\nWho we are looking for\nHigh intelligence, high energy, and high integrity. Obsessive about where the error budget goes. Relish the challenge and physical chaos of a scaling hardware lab. 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