Quantum Hardware Platform Lead

Alice & Bob; Aubervilliers; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BSPCE

Direct IP Compensation bonuses

Parental plan with crèche support

Urban Sports Club membership

Mental health support via moka.care

25 days vacation + RTT

Partial transportation cost coverage

Health coverage with Alan

Swile meal vouchers

French language courses

Job summary

Alice & Bob, based in the Île-de-France region, seeks a leader to design, operate and maintain the cryogenic and electronic platform for testing quantum processors. You will manage a specialist team, oversee cryostat operations at 10 millikelvin, and shape the operating model reporting to the VP Quantum Hardware & Infrastructure.

Regularly travelling between Aubervilliers and Paris 15th sites, you will drive uptime, maintenance schedules, supplier coordination, budgeting, and on-call coverage as

Qualifications

• Proven experience as the direct line manager of a technical team: recruitment, 1:1s, performance reviews, priorities.
• An engineering degree or equivalent, and hands-on experience with complex technical systems: you have built, operated, maintained or troubleshot them yourself.
• An operational excellence mindset: lean management, continuous improvement, planning under constraints.
• Professional English; working French for day-to-day operations on site.
• Experience from adjacent environments transfers directly: data centers, semiconductor fabs, large research facilities, medical imaging, or any setting where critical equipment must stay available.

Responsibilities

• Platform availability: own uptime, build the preventive maintenance plan, lead troubleshooting.
• Operations: plan and prioritise the team’s activity against internal user requests, and contribute hands-on when needed.
• System integration: oversee the in-house assembly, integration and commissioning of new systems, run their testing and validation, through to final acceptance.
• Suppliers: manage suppliers and subcontractors, their interventions and the quality of their work.
• People and budget: recruit, develop and manage the team, own the budget, and set up on-call coverage as the platform grows.

Skills

Team leadership

Operations planning

Problem solving

English proficiency

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Alice & Bob, based in the Île-de-France region, seeks a leader to design, operate and maintain the cryogenic and electronic platform for testing quantum processors. You will manage a specialist team, oversee cryostat operations at 10 millikelvin, and shape the operating model reporting to the VP Quantum Hardware & Infrastructure.

Regularly travelling between Aubervilliers and Paris 15th sites, you will drive uptime, maintenance schedules, supplier coordination, budgeting, and on-call coverage as