# Advanced Optical Engineer - 972

We are seeking an Advanced Optical Engineer to support R&D in our Broomfield, CO Location. Our team develops optics and integrated photonics technologies that enable scaling of our trapped-ion quantum computers from our current 98-qubit Helios system to our future Lumos system with hundreds of thousands of qubits. The data, designs, and expertise from our group inform our next-generation systems, from the overall architecture to the tiniest of details. We are looking for more engineers and scientists to join our cross-disciplinary team. All applicants for placement in safety-sensitive positions will be required to submit to a pre-employment drug test. Key Responsibilities: Lead the build and optimization of metrology systems to assemble, characterize, refine, validate, and improve metasurface, micro-optical, and integrated photonic components and systems Create new ways to create, deliver, and measure light to trapped ions Develop and use high-sensitivity measurement techniques and systems to evaluate the optical output of optical and photonic devices Drive the development and design of metrology systems that validate technologies, methods, alignment, and suppliers to inform roa

- **Id**: 802715
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/quantinuum-advanced-optical-engineer-972>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Broomfield, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-08T20:52:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:32:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 62
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3443
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Quantum Science & Computing, Quantum Computing Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 696
- **Name**: Quantinuum
- **Domain**: quantinuum.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/quantinuum>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.727
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 132000
- **Max**: 165000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 165000

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 62

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: Russian; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T08:38:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 25
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.562
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 61
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 165000
- **Is top pay**: no

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