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Back-end packaging steps are largely irreversible: what happens at your bench cannot be corrected downstream, so precision is the job.\nYou'll join our Micro-Packaging team in QPU Production (Fabrication) in Espoo, reporting to the Team Leader, Micro-packaging, and working daily with production engineers, tech leads, and colleagues across the Fabrication department. The team is taking over the process from dicing onwards while production volume climbs, so we're hiring two operators. Shift work when production requires it is part of the role.\nYour first months are a training phase: you'll work through the SOPs station by station with the team alongside you. By six months in, you'll be running chips independently through dicing, cleaning, probing, bonding, and sample holder preparation, with defect-free output and unbroken traceability from diced chip to finished package.\n\nWhat you’ll actually doExecute chip-level assembly, bonding, and packaging operations exactly to established SOPs and BKMs\n\nOperate back-end process tools: dicing, chip cleaning, probing, flip-chip bonding, sample holder preparation, and wire bonding\n\nDeliver defect-free output at the individual-chip and individual-wire level, where one misalignment or contamination event can compromise an entire device\n\nMove assigned chips through each assembly station to meet daily output targets without creating bottlenecks\n\nMonitor equipment status and bond quality in real time, then intervene or escalate before minor drift becomes yield loss\n\nLog every station check-in, check-out, and process result in MES and Jira so traceability stays complete and real time\n\nHold cleanroom discipline: gowning, chemical handling, and contamination control at the standard fine-pitch bonding demands\n\nFlag bonding defects, probe failures, alignment issues, and equipment anomalies to the Production Engineer immediately\n\nHand over WIP status, in-progress bonds, and tool issues clearly at shift change so chip-level work is never left half done\n\nKeep workstations, tooling, and fixtures to 5S standards, and take part in weekly planning and reporting meetings\n\nWhat we’re looking forAt least 1 year of hands-on lab experience\n\nA degree from a university of applied sciences, or an equivalent amount of relevant working history\n\nManual precision and fine-motor accuracy: steady hands at the single-chip, single-wire scale\n\nThe discipline to follow mature process instructions and safety protocols exactly, in a process where deviations cannot be corrected later\n\nPrecise attention to detail across complex fabrication steps, with a safety-first mindset\n\nHabits that keep a traceable record of your own work, and respect for the work of the people around you\n\nA team-oriented person who prioritizes teams' goals and targets\n\nReadiness to move to shift work when production requires it\n\nProfessional level English\n\nSeen as an advantage\nCleanroom experience, or hands-on production experience from a related industry such as semiconductors, electronics, or precision assembly\n\nFamiliarity with back-end tools: dicing saws, wire bonders, flip-chip bonders, or probe stations\n\nTechnical communication skills: describing a problem and its fix to people who know the fabrication process broadly but not your step in detail\n\nExperience with MES or Jira based production tracking\n\nWhy IQM?Full-stack quantum computing: From quantum hardware to software layers and beyond, we build across the full-stack.\n\nHigh-performance playground: We aim high, and we know sustainable performance only works when life outside work does too—hybrid setups, flexible hours.\n\nNever the smartest: You won’t always be the smartest person in the room. Neither will we. Expect to learn constantly - from each other and beyond with IQM’s Learning Hub, LinkedIn Learning, and a team-based L&D budget.\n\nApproachable leadership: Flat hierarchy, direct access. Feel free to approach any leaders. They're friendlier than they look!\n\nThe sweet spot: Big enough to matter. Small enough to move fast. Growing between a startup and a corporation. We’re in the phase where top performers get noticed.\n\nBigger than IQM: Our people build know-how for the entire quantum ecosystem. We publish papers, run hackathons, and help shape a market that's still being defined.\n\nThe future of computing won’t build itself. You might be one of the few who do.Meet our people and learn more about IQM on our stories page.\n\nExplore our scientific publications.\n\nWe'll start interviews and move forward with hiring as soon as we meet strong candidates. 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