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It is the most precise semiconductor manufacturing in the world, enabling systems with world-leading algorithmic fidelity, and a decisive advantage in the global quantum computing race.\nOur products are commercially deployed and generating revenue. Watermelon, our quantum-enhanced AI system, is delivering superior results on real-world problems across energy, telecom and finance. Quantum Twins, our simulation platform, provides unparalleled ability to model quantum systems, accelerating molecule and materials discovery.\nThis is SQC: building the future of computing while delivering quantum impact today.\nAbout the role\nWe are hiring a Senior Device Processing Engineer to help develop and optimise the fabrication processes behind SQC's atomic-scale quantum devices. This is hands-on work across the full process flow, at the point where process science meets production-grade discipline.\nYou'll work across the full process flow, refining complex fabrication techniques, resolving process challenges as they come up, and developing new proof-of-concept processes to support SQC's roadmap toward utility-scale logical quantum computing. The work spans everything from optimising established methods to keep device yield and reproducibility high, through to greenfield process development for devices that haven't been built before. You'll fabricate and characterise silicon-based quantum devices in our cleanroom, working alongside global experts.\nThis is a senior individual contributor role. You won't manage a team, but you'll bring real breadth across the whole process flow and set the standard for how the work gets done. We're looking for someone who can operate anywhere in the flow rather than in one corner of it, and who the engineers around them learn from. You'll work closely with cleanroom managers, scientists, and engineers to keep fabrication running with high yield and operational continuity.\nRole responsibilities\nLead the optimisation of semiconductor fabrication processes across the full flow (lithography, etching, deposition, packaging) to improve performance and reproducibility\nDevelop new fabrication techniques to support the scaling of quantum architectures\nPerform advanced device processing, with electron beam lithography as a core daily tool\nConduct detailed root cause analysis and resolve complex fabrication issues\nMaintain cleanroom equipment and infrastructure\nProvide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers and researchers\nContribute to documentation, process control discipline, and safety procedures\nYour experience\nEssential\nMaster's or PhD in Engineering, Physics, Nanotechnology, or a related field\nMinimum 5 years' hands-on experience in cleanroom semiconductor fabrication\nDemonstrated hands-on expertise in electron beam lithography\nStrong experience across adjacent nanoscale processes (etching, deposition, materials integration)\nProven ability to optimise and troubleshoot fabrication processes and equipment\nTrack record of independently developing, documenting, and transferring fabrication recipes\nDemonstrated leadership in a collaborative technical environment\nNice to have\nExperience operating in a commercial fab, foundry, or production-oriented research consortium\nExposure to formal process control, yield tracking, or production discipline beyond pure academic research\nFamiliarity with quantum device fabrication or other ultra-low-defect process environments\nEqual opportunity\nSQC is an equal opportunity employer. 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