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Your focus will be to bring these sensors' exquisite laboratory performance into extreme environments, developing hardware and measurement approaches that maintain reliable operation amid environmental disturbances such as vibrations and electromagnetic interference.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nCollaborating across teams with experimental and modelling physicists, electronics engineers, and software engineers, to develop state-of-the-art quantum magnetometers and auxiliary hardware for aerospace, defence, geophysical exploration, and medical applications.\nCarrying out design, development, testing, and characterisation work in both the laboratory and the field, to improve sensor performance, autonomy, and reliability in harsh environments.\nDeveloping and testing early-stage prototypes on optical tables, translating experimental results into requirements for engineering prototypes.\nWorking continuously with engineering teams to inform design, support subcomponent testing, and lead scientific commissioning through to field trials.\nIdentifying adverse effects that limit sensor performance and developing mitigation strategies compatible with both miniaturisation and field deployment.\nWorking with technical leadership to organise and execute hardware and capability development programmes, including field trials of our sensors and auxiliary hardware.\nLiaising with academic and industry partners to support sensor development, new business opportunities, and product development.\nSharing insights and results with the Research division, colleagues, external stakeholders, and customers through presentations, academic publications, technical reports, and blog posts.\nOther duties within the Employee's skills and experience, or with reasonable training.\nIdeally you'll have:\nA PhD, or equivalent industry experience, in atomic, molecular, and optical physics or a closely related discipline.\nHands-on experience with quantum sensor hardware, such as lasers, optics, electro-optical systems.\nExperience in atomic sensor design, construction, operation, and characterisation.\nA practical, experimental approach to identifying performance limitations and improving sensor reliability in challenging environments.\nProficiency in Python for numerical simulations, data logging, and analysis; 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