# Quantum Hardware Engineer

Quantum Hardware Engineer Superlinear · Chicago, IL (on-site, Hyde Park Labs) · Contract-to-hire Superlinear Computing is a stealth-stage, AI-powered quantum computing lab that applies machine learning to advance and apply existing quantum technologies. 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. Role You 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. Your 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. This is a contract-to-hire role. Requirements Hands-on operation of a dilu

- **Id**: 4084777
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/super-linear-quantum-hardware-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T17:33:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T18:38:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1995
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Quantum Science & Computing, Artificial Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 692807
- **Name**: Super Linear
- **Domain**: superlinear.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/superlinear>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 75
- **Max**: 100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T18:38:16Z

## 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**: 2026-11-11T20:21:33Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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