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About the Role

Lead end-to-end design execution for silicon spin qubit quantum processor units (QPUs) and test vehicles, from concept through tapeout. This role blends quantum physics and semiconductor engineering, involving new device concepts and building industry-standard infrastructure for manufacturability. It is a hybrid hands-on execution and team leadership position.

Responsibilities

• Translate qubit architecture requirements into manufacturable physical designs, including gate layouts, bias networks, and multi-qubit interconnects.
• Define connectivity/schematic capture and generate netlists for circuit simulation and LVS verification.
• Own tapeouts, including readiness reviews, verification, and risk management.
• Execute critical design work in layout or simulation and review/integrate the other domain.
• Collaborate with experimentalists and the device modeling team to refine designs and device models.
• Define design workflows, standards, toolchains, and guide PDK and DFT development.
• Lead and mentor the QPU Design team.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent experience in EE, physics, or a related field.
• 8+ years in experimental hardware within research-adjacent or industry environments.
• Led hardware from concept through tapeout with personal accountability.
• Deep expertise in one domain (layout or simulation) with fluency in the other.
• Layout-first: custom physical design using Cadence Virtuoso or similar, hands-on DRC/LVS/extraction, owned tapeouts, worked with sim teams, ran basic TCAD/EM, debugged layout via sim.
• Simulation-first: EM/electrostatic/circuit modeling using tools like Ansys (HFSS/Q3D), Keysight ADS, Cadence Spectre, Synopsys Sentaurus, or equivalent, validated models against measured data, iterated on layouts, understood best practices and DRC constraints, constructively critiqued layout decisions.
• Understanding of semiconductor device physics.
• Built processes, mentored engineers, and integrated across physics/sim/layout.

Skills

• Cadence Virtuoso
• Ansys (HFSS/Q3D)
• Keysight ADS
• Cadence Spectre
• Synopsys Sentaurus
• TCAD
• EM simulation
• Python
• SKILL
• Tcl

Location

• London
• Oxford

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 8+ years

Education Level

• PhD or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Share options scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Group private medical insurance scheme
• Life Assurance
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

About the Company

• Quantum Motion is a fast-growing quantum computing scale-up based in London.
• Developing quantum processors based on industrial-grade silicon chips.
• Potential to radically transform computing power in areas such as materials modelling, medicine, artificial intelligence and more.
• Team listed every year in the “Top 100 Startups worth watching” in the EE Times since 2021.
• Technology breakthroughs featured in The Telegraph, BBC and the New Statesman.
• Founders are internationally renowned researchers from UCL and Oxford University.
• Chairman is the co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys.
• Backed by top-tier investors with recent Series C funding of $160 million.
• Brings together quantum engineers, IC engineers, quantum computing theoreticians and software engineers.
• Collaborative and interdisciplinary culture focused on tackling big challenges.
• Team of 100+ based in Oxford and London, with a centre of mass in Islington lab.
• State-of-the-art cryogenic facilities.

Equal Opportunity

• Quantum Motion is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate based on age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, colour, religion, disability status, marital status, pregnancy, gender reassignment or any other protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act 2010.