Team Lead, Electromagnetic Design Tools and Infrastructure

Nord Quantique; Sherbrooke; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nord Quantique in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada is seeking a Team Lead for Electromagnetic Design Tools and Infrastructure to define the technical direction of internal EM simulation pipelines and scalable workflows. You will lead tool development for model generation, automation, solver orchestration, data extraction, and validation, while mentoring engineers and coordinating roadmaps with hardware design goals.

This role combines leadership with hands-on coding in Python and close collaboration with

Qualifications

• PhD, Master’s degree, or equivalent industry experience in physics, electrical engineering, computational electromagnetics, or software engineering.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in computational EM or scientific software development.
• Strong programming experience, preferably Python; ability to develop maintainable software.
• Experience leading technical projects and tool development.
• Experience with EM tools such as Ansys HFSS, COMSOL, PALACE, Sonnet, CST, or similar.
• Mentoring and coordinating roadmaps with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the EM simulation infrastructure roadmap and solver strategy.
• Lead internal tool development for model generation, automation, and data extraction.
• Set software engineering standards for architecture, testing, and documentation.
• Ensure reproducible, traceable, and validated simulation workflows.
• Drive benchmarking, scalability, and cost optimization across HPC resources.

Skills

Team leadership

Python

EM design

Roadmapping

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Software engineering

Education

PhD / Master’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Ansys HFSS

COMSOL

PALACE

Sonnet

CST Studio Suite

Job description

Team Lead, Electromagnetic Design Tools and Infrastructure at Nord Quantique, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. A lead-level full time position in the Design team, listed under hardware engineering.

Our current needs

As Nord Quantique scales its quantum processor development activities, the EM Design team requires robust, reproducible, and scalable simulation infrastructure to support faster design cycles, stronger loss-budget rigor, and more efficient use of computational resources. We are seeking a Team Lead, EM Design Tools and Infrastructure to define and drive the technical direction of internal electromagnetic simulation infrastructure. This role combines technical leadership, hands-on scientific software development, computational EM expertise, and cross-functional coordination. The selected candidate will lead the development of internal modeling tools, automation workflows, solver strategies, validation practices, and reproducible simulation pipelines used across the EM Design team.

Team mission

Enable fast, scalable, and cost-efficient EM simulation across the EM Design team by developing and maintaining robust modeling tools, automation workflows, and solver strategies that support roadmap-driven design and loss-budget rigor. Working in close collaboration with experts at Nord Quantique, the chosen candidate will:

• Own the EM simulation infrastructure roadmap and long-term solver strategy across the EM Design team.
• Lead internal tool development for model generation, simulation automation, solver orchestration, data extraction, and post-processing.
• Set software engineering standards for architecture, testing, documentation, releases, code review, and maintainability.
• Ensure simulation workflows are robust through reproducibility, traceability, versioning, validation, and design-documentation alignment.
• Drive solver benchmarking and scalability planning, including accuracy, convergence, licensing, HPC usage, queue times, and compute cost.

Requirements

• PhD, Master’s degree, or equivalent industry experience in physics, electrical engineering, computational electromagnetics, scientific computing, software engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in computational EM, scientific software development, RF/microwave simulation, superconducting circuits, cQED, or quantum hardware design.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects, internal tool development, simulation infrastructure, or scientific software initiatives.
• Strong programming experience, preferably in Python, with a proven ability to develop maintainable, scalable, and well-documented engineering software.
• Experience with EM simulation tools such as Ansys HFSS, COMSOL, PALACE, Sonnet, CST, or similar.
• Experience mentoring technical contributors, coordinating roadmaps, and aligning stakeholders around shared engineering priorities.
• Senior technical contributor with strong leadership instincts and the ability to balance strategy with hands-on implementation.
• Comfortable defining a technical roadmap while also contributing directly to code, architecture, and validation work.
• Pragmatic and solution-oriented with a strong ability to prioritize high-impact work in a fast-moving R&D environment.
• Able to bridge physics, computational EM, software engineering, and hardware-design constraints across multiple stakeholders.