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The company’s unique ability to offer both hardware and software solutions, along with its commitment to build energy efficient quantum processing units that scale, positions it to play a key role in the next wave of innovation, and in many strategic and sovereign industrial sectors.\nWith a team of more than 140 people, we develop our own hardware and software stack, from semiconductor quantum emitters and photonic processors to quantum control systems and quantum algorithms.\nOur ambition is to build large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of solving problems beyond the reach of classical computation using Quandela's cutting-edge quantum dot technology.\nAchieving this vision requires not only advances in photonic quantum computing, but also the development of scalable spin-photon interfaces, distributed entanglement capabilities and future SPOQC (Spin-Optical Quantum Computing) architectures that will enable modular and fault-tolerant quantum systems.\nJoin Us at the Forefront of Quantum Computing Innovation\nAbout this position:\nJoin Quandela’s Source Production team to work on the fiber pigtailing of single-photon sources.\nThe role focuses on developing, improving and operating highly precise fiber coupling methods for photonic quantum devices.\nThe role is part of the Source Production team, which currently includes 11 people across fabrication, fiber pigtailing and optical characterization. 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