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Our labs are in the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago and Palo Alto. We are a small, focused, hands-on team focused on ideas and iteration - fail fast, fail often, move forward. This is one of our first on-site engineering hires, and the system and measurement program could be yours to build.\nRole\nYou run our superconducting qubit lab at IQMP: a Bluefors XLD1000sl dilution refrigerator and a 9-qubit transmon processor. You are our on-site engineer, working with the team in Palo Alto.\nYour first task is to independently characterize the processor after warm-up and cooldown: coherence, readout, and gate fidelities on every qubit, measured by us against the vendor's specification. After that, you own the system: calibration, drift baselines, hardware changes, and the measurements our experiments need. New devices will go into the same fridge. 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The language matters less than the habit of logging everything.\n\nWithin reach of Chicago.\n\nGraduate students with hands-on fridge and qubit time are welcome, and the schedule can work around a thesis.\nPreferred\nBluefors XL-series experience.\n\nTWPA operation.\n\nA commercial control stack: Rigetti, Qblox, Quantum Machines, or Zurich Instruments.\n\nCompensation\n$100/hour during the contract; salary and equity on conversion.\nTo apply: [email] with a résumé and a short note on a measurement that disagreed with a vendor's specification, and what you did about it.","description_format":"text","description_chars":1995,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Quantum Science & Computing","Artificial Intelligence"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T18:38:16Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T20:20:52Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/super-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/super-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T20:20:52Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":39745,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":692807},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=692807"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsuper-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsuper-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsuper-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/super-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsuper-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4084777}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"superlinear.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4084777},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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