# Packaging Engineer - Optical Attach Process

About Xanadu: Xanadu’s mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. At Xanadu, we are learners, innovators, researchers, collaborators and problem solvers. We are creating something that has never been built before. What we are doing is extremely hard, the classic moon shot. Few people in their life will be able to be a part of something like this, where if we are successful, the technologies we develop will solve some of the world’s most challenging problems and literally change the world. And that is something to be excited about! Your role and responsibilities: At Xanadu, an Optical Packaging Engineer plays a critical role on the Hardware Team, bridging photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with scalable, fault-tolerant quantum hardware architectures. The primary mission is developing ultra-low-loss, high-precision fiber-to-chip optical attachment processes to enable rack-scale photonic quantum computers. Hands-on laboratory work: setting up experiments and operating alignment equipment. Perform minimal changes to the machines during process development. Optical Attach & Fiber-to-Chip Alignment: Design, optimize, and characterize high

- **Id**: 3966918
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xanadu-packaging-engineer-optical-attach-process>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T14:00:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:44:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Quantum Science & Computing, Quantum Computing Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 698
- **Name**: Xanadu
- **Domain**: xanadu.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xanadu-ai>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: HiBob

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## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T14:36:33Z

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- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T00:55:15Z

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