About the Role
As a Quantum Integration Engineer, you will ensure IQM quantum computers operate reliably across cloud, customer, and internal R&D environments. You will work hands-on with calibration, system stability, software updates, and incident resolution, collaborating closely with R&D teams as a system expert. Your work will translate real system behavior into structured feedback to improve future technology generations, ensuring our quantum computers are operational, stable, and scientifically usable.
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain IQM quantum computers across cloud and customer environments, ensuring high availability and stable performance
- Plan and execute calibration and service activities aligned with customer and user needs
- Perform on-site debugging and testing
- Analyze system performance, identify deviations, and troubleshoot hardware and software issues affecting system behavior and stability
- Contribute to L2 incident resolution and technical support for customer systems
- Perform testing, debugging and calibration during customer system deliveries and commissioning
- Act as a key interface between production systems and R&D, providing structured technical feedback to improve performance, usability, and reliability
- Develop and refine service documentation, procedures, and laboratory best practices
Requirements
- Master's degree in quantum physics, experimental physics, engineering, or a closely related field
- Experience working with complex experimental or high-tech systems such as superconducting circuits, cryogenic setups, RF systems, or similar advanced hardware environments
- Strong understanding of quantum computer architecture and calibration, as well as system level performance dependencies
- Experience in troubleshooting hardware and software integration issues in research or production environments
- Ability to analyze experimental data and identify root causes of performance deviations
- Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language
- Experience documenting procedures, experiments, and technical findings in a structured way
- Ability to take ownership of tasks, manage multiple priorities, and collaborate effectively across R&D, engineering, and customer facing teams in various time zones
- Commitment to reliability, safety, and continuous improvement
- Excellent communication skills in English and Japanese, with the ability to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Willingness and ability to travel to customer premises as needed
Skills
- Python
- Quantum computer architecture
- Calibration
- System level performance dependencies
- Troubleshooting hardware and software integration issues
- Data analysis
- Documentation
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible hours
Experience Level
- PhD is considered an advantage
Education Level
- Master's degree in quantum physics, experimental physics, engineering, or a closely related field
Benefits
- Hybrid setups
- Flexible hours
About the Company
- At IQM, we build world-leading quantum computers for the well-being of humankind, designing systems to tackle computational challenges beyond the practical limits of classical machines.
- Our work sits at the edge of science and engineering, turning deep research into reliable, full-stack systems that drive discoveries in fields like medicine, energy, and technology.
- We offer full-stack quantum computing, from quantum hardware to software layers.
- We aim high and support sustainable performance with life outside work considered.
- Expect to learn constantly in a collaborative environment with approachable leadership and a flat hierarchy.
- We are big enough to matter and small enough to move fast, in a growth phase where top performers get noticed.
- Our people build know-how for the entire quantum ecosystem, publishing papers, running hackathons, and shaping a market that's still being defined.
