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About the Role
Xanadu is seeking a Cryogenic Engineer to lead the design, development, and construction of next-generation cryostats and contribute to facility-level cryogenic infrastructure. This role involves owning the entire hardware lifecycle, ensuring cryogenic platforms are robust, scalable, and mission-ready, and collaborating with internal and external teams on system design and improvement.
Responsibilities
- Develop new and innovative cryostats for photon detector systems.
- Independently operate and test cryogenic systems, including performance metrics, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Work with cryogenic liquid and gas systems to achieve optimized cooling requirements.
- Help deploy large-scale cryogenic facilities with high recovery and efficiency.
- Collaborate with scientific and engineering teams to advance state-of-the-art detector technologies.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a closely related technical field.
- At least 5 years of cryogenic industry experience.
- Experience leading and iterating on cryostat designs.
- CAD and simulation experience for thermal/mechanical modeling (e.g., Solidworks).
- Extensive hands-on experience operating cryostats, including cooldowns, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
- Knowledge and experience with high vacuum systems for cryogenic use.
- Liquid cryogen handling and distribution experience.
- Knowledge of design and fabrication of liquid heat exchangers.
- Experience operating various refrigerators including pulse tube, liquid-cryogen, sorption, and dilution refrigerators.
- Thermal and mechanical engineering simulation experience, including knowledge of low-temperature material properties.
- Self-motivated, comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Detail-oriented with a positive attitude.
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
Skills
- Cryogenic engineering
- Cryostat design
- Thermal/mechanical modeling
- CAD
- Solidworks
- Cryogenic system operation
- Vacuum systems
- Liquid cryogen handling
- Heat exchanger design
- Pulse tube refrigerators
- Liquid-cryogen refrigerators
- Sorption refrigerators
- Dilution refrigerators
- Python
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years cryogenic industry experience
- 7+ years cryogenic industry experience
Education Level
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- 150,000 - 200,000 CAD
Benefits
- Equity
About the Company
- 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.
- We are successful, the technologies we develop will solve some of the world’s most challenging problems and literally change the world.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
- We are committed to building an inclusive, safe, and equitable culture and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard.
- We are committed to meeting the needs of all individuals and support a barrier-free workplace.
- Should you require accommodations at any point during the recruitment process please contact Recruiting at recruiting@xanadu.ai.