Senior Quantum Measurement Engineer

Microsoft Quantum is dedicated to solving the world’s intractable problems and forever altering our economic, industrial, academic, and societal landscape. In just hours or days, a quantum computer can solve complex problems that would otherwise take today’s computers billions of years! This has massive implications for research in healthcare, energy, environmental systems, smart materials, and more. Most importantly, Microsoft brings the only scalable quantum system to the broadest set of customers. For more information about our team, visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum. 

Are you passionate about mesoscopic device physics, electronics, electrical transport measurements, qubit control, and computer programming? Do you want to be part of the next revolution in computing? Microsoft is looking for you! Join our team to build a quantum computer based on topologically protected qubits. 

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Responsibilities

We are seeking an experimental condensed matter physicist, applied physicist, materials scientist, or electrical engineer with a background in cryogenics and electrical transport in mesoscopic superconductor-semiconductor devices.  A successful candidate: 

• Demonstrates deep expertise in physics, experimentation methods, and measurement techniques. Develops hypotheses, designs experiments and modifies future experiments based on results. Conducts experimentation. Develops equipment designs needed for experimentation. Directs experimentation, data collection, statistical analysis, and reporting of results. Identifies and adapts existing methods to integrate into experiments. 

• Guides cross-team collaboration across Quantum for efficient use of company expertise, including hardware, software, and algorithms. Works across teams and ensures contact with others as needed. Documents work and makes available internally and externally to the team to more easily leverage work across teams.  

• Partners to create methods for control development and implementation. Creates ways to measure characteristics and properties. Develops cryogenic techniques/instruments. 

• Helps develop device designs. Partners to develop cryogenic measurement techniques using DC and RF techniques and creates ways to measure characteristics and properties. 

• Performs quantum measurement and develops functional testing of quantum devices, and leverages expertise in instrumentation involved (e.g., what to use, wiring and filtering for low temperature application). 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND solid experience in industry or in a research and development environment 

• OR Master's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND significant experience in industry or in a research and development environment 

• OR Doctorate in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND experience in industry or in a research and development environment, could include completion of a post doctoral research position 

• OR equivalent experience. 
• Solid experience with experimenting with low-dimensional semiconductors, superconductivity, or quantum information processing devices. 
• Solid (PhD included) experience with data acquisition and programming in a high-level language (python, matlab) 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications 

•  Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND significant experience in industry or in a research and development environment 
• OR Master's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND solid experience in industry or in a research and development environment 
• OR Doctorate in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND significant experience in industry or in a research and development environment, could include completion of a post doctoral research position 
• OR equivalent experience 
• Solid (PhD included) experience with low-noise electronic measurements (lockin amplifiers, analog pre-amps, etc.), cryogenic techniques (He3 cryostats or dilution refrigerators), electrical transport characterization (for semiconductors, dielectrics, and superconductors). 
• Experience in advanced qubit measurement and characterization. 
• Experience in experiments with quantum dots. 
• Experience with RF reflectometry measurements. 
• Experience in developing code in a version-controlled environment (git, svn). 
• Experience in automating measurement setups for consistency and higher throughput. 
• Experience with the physics of Majorana bound states and topological properties of matter. 
• Experience with industrial statistics techniques and tools (e.g., JMP). 

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