EM Design Tools & Infrastructure Engineer (Mid-Level)

Nord Quantique; Sherbrooke; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nord Quantique in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada seeks an EM Design Tools & Infrastructure Developer (Mid-Level) to bridge physics, software, and hardware design workflows. You’ll build robust internal EM toolkits, automate simulations, and support loss-budget workflows within the Engineering team.

You will collaborate with EM designers and use Python and industry tools to create reusable software components, ensuring code quality and long-term maintainability in a fast-paced quantum hardware

Qualifications

• Master’s degree, PhD, or equivalent industry experience in physics, electrical engineering, computational electromagnetics, scientific computing, software engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in computational electromagnetics, RF/microwave design, superconducting circuits, cQED, or scientific software development.
• Strong programming experience, preferably in Python, with experience developing maintainable scientific or engineering software.
• Experience with collaborative software development practices, including Git, issue tracking, code review, testing, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve internal EM design toolkits supporting superconducting quantum processor design.
• Build robust automation workflows for parametric geometry generation, simulation setup, solver execution, result extraction, and post-processing.
• Integrate commercial, open-source, and internal EM simulation tools into reproducible design workflows.
• Contribute to solver benchmarking and numerical validation, including convergence studies, mesh sensitivity checks, and accuracy assessment.
• Collaborate with EM designers to translate recurring modeling needs into reliable internal tools and reusable software components.
• Support integration of simulation outputs into design documentation, loss-budget analysis, and roadmap-driven decision-making.

Skills

Python programming

Analytical skills

Software maintenance

Debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master’s degree / PhD in related field

Tools

Ansys HFSS

COMSOL

PALACE

Sonnet

CST

Git

Job description

Nord Quantique in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada seeks an EM Design Tools & Infrastructure Developer (Mid-Level) to bridge physics, software, and hardware design workflows. You’ll build robust internal EM toolkits, automate simulations, and support loss-budget workflows within the Engineering team.

You will collaborate with EM designers and use Python and industry tools to create reusable software components, ensuring code quality and long-term maintainability in a fast-paced quantum hardware