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About the Role
As a Senior Scientist in the Magnetometry Novel Hardware team, you will design, develop, test, and characterize novel state-of-the-art magnetometers and auxiliary hardware. Your focus will be to bring sensors' laboratory performance into extreme environments, developing hardware and measurement approaches that maintain reliable operation amid environmental disturbances.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across teams to develop state-of-the-art quantum magnetometers and auxiliary hardware for aerospace, defence, geophysical exploration, and medical applications.
- Carry out design, development, testing, and characterisation work in both the laboratory and the field to improve sensor performance, autonomy, and reliability in harsh environments.
- Develop and test early-stage prototypes, translating experimental results into requirements for engineering prototypes.
- Work continuously with engineering teams to inform design, support subcomponent testing, and lead scientific commissioning through to field trials.
- Identify adverse effects that limit sensor performance and develop mitigation strategies compatible with miniaturisation and field deployment.
- Organise and execute hardware and capability development programmes, including field trials.
- Liaise with academic and industry partners to support sensor development, new business opportunities, and product development.
- Share insights and results through presentations, academic publications, technical reports, and blog posts.
- Perform other duties within the Employee's skills and experience, or with reasonable training.
Requirements
- A PhD, or equivalent industry experience, in atomic, molecular, and optical physics or a closely related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with quantum sensor hardware, such as lasers, optics, electro-optical systems.
- Experience in atomic sensor design, construction, operation, and characterisation.
- A practical, experimental approach to identifying performance limitations and improving sensor reliability in challenging environments.
- Proficiency in Python for numerical simulations, data logging, and analysis.
- Familiarity with GitHub and tools like Poetry.
- An appreciation for sound software design and architecture.
- The ability to communicate technical results clearly to a wide and varied audience.
Skills
- Quantum sensing
- Quantum-enabled navigation
- Atomic physics
- Cold-atom interferometry
- Navigation modeling
- Bayesian estimation
- Signal processing
- Magnetometry
- Hardware design
- Hardware development
- Hardware testing
- Hardware characterisation
- Aerospace applications
- Maritime positioning
- Maritime navigation
- Geophysical exploration
- Medical diagnostics
- Medical imaging
- Magnetic anomaly detection
- Vibration mitigation
- Electromagnetic interference mitigation
- Optical tables
- Prototyping
- Software engineering
- Field trials
- Academic publications
- Technical reports
- Python
- GitHub
- Poetry
- Software design
- Software architecture
- Quantum magnetometers
- Alkali vapours
- Free induction decay (FID)
- Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation (NMOR)
- Spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometers
Location
- Sydney
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
- Huntsville
- Berlin
- Oxford
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- PhD
Benefits
- Flexibility
- Equity potential
- Competitive benefits
About the Company
- Q-CTRL is the global leader in AI-powered quantum control infrastructure software.
- We build the tools that make quantum technology useful, solving the hardest challenges in quantum computing and quantum sensing to deliver real-world impact.
- Founded in 2017, we operate globally with offices in Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Huntsville, Berlin, and Oxford.
- Our teams bring together technical and multi-disciplinary expertise across the product lifecycle, and we’re hiring talent to help scale every part of the business.
- We work quickly to turn cutting-edge science into deployable technology.
- In 2024 we raised US$113 million in Series B funding, the largest aggregate investment for a quantum software company.
- Six months later we delivered the first commercial quantum advantage with Ironstone Opal, our field-validated quantum navigation solution for defense and industry.
- At Q-CTRL, we prioritize outcomes over hours.