QMunicate – Lead Systems Engineer Quantum Network Node (f/m/d)

Munich Quantum Valley; München; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee equity (VSOP)

Training budget

Founding-team ownership

Job summary

Munich Quantum Valley seeks a founding-team leader to own the connectivity layer for emerging quantum technologies. You will integrate optics, hardware engineering, and scalable software to make a first-of-its-kind machine operational.

You will supervise a team across physics, photonics, electronics and software, guiding all design reviews and ensuring safe, well-documented lab operations. This role reports to the CTO and offers real equity in a breakthrough venture.

Qualifications

• PhD in AMO physics required.
• 6+ years building and operating complex cold-atom/quantum-optics experiments end-to-end.
• Hands-on breadth across UHV, laser systems and stabilization, optics, experimental control, optical tweezers, and Rydberg physics.

Responsibilities

• Own the system architecture: requirements, interfaces and error budgets for rates, fidelity and uptime.
• Lead integration of the first in-house node and its transfer to a rack-based design.
• Plan and track technical milestones; run design reviews through to design freeze.
• Coordinate and mentor engineers across physics, photonics, electronics and software.
• Set up documentation, configuration control and lab safety; act as technical lead in customer pilots.
• Report to the CTO.

Skills

UHV systems

Laser stabilization

Optics

Experimental control

Optical tweezers

Rydberg physics

Systems thinking

Education

PhD in AMO physics

Job description

Join the founding team developing the connectivity layer for future quantum technologies — at the intersection of quantum optics, hardware engineering and scalable infrastructure.

You are the technical owner of the whole machine. You make cavity, atoms, lasers, photonics, electronics and software work as one system, and you lead the team that builds it.

Responsibilities

• Own the system architecture: requirements, interfaces and error budgets for rates, fidelity and uptime
• Lead integration of the first in-house node and its transfer to a rack-based design
• Plan and track technical milestones; run design reviews through to design freeze
• Coordinate and mentor engineers across physics, photonics, electronics and software
• Set up documentation, configuration control and lab safety; act as technical lead in customer pilots
• You report to the CTO

Requirements

• PhD in AMO physics
• 6+ years building and operating complex cold-atom or quantum-optics experiments end-to-end (PhD and postdoc count)
• Hands-on breadth across UHV, laser systems and stabilization, optics, experimental control, optical tweezers, and Rydberg physics
• Proven ownership of a full apparatus or sub-project, including guiding others
• Systems-level thinking and clear communication with both physicists and engineers

Nice to have

• Cavity QED, Yb or Sr atoms

What we offer

• A founding-team role with real ownership of a first-of-its-kind machine
• A new quantum-optics lab in the Munich area
• Competitive salary and employee equity (VSOP)
• Close ties to the European quantum ecosystem; conference and training budget