Quantum Control Engineer: Drive High-Fidelity Qubit Gates

Oxford Quantum Circuits; Reading; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford Quantum Circuits is seeking a Quantum Engineer (Control) to push high-fidelity quantum operations and develop production-ready calibration pipelines across our superconducting processor stack. You will work across Advanced Product Development, Calibration Engineering, Processor Innovation and software teams to translate control techniques into scalable methods and robust experimental workflows.

Join a world‑class team driving the next computational era with bold innovation and hands-on

Qualifications

• A PhD, or equivalent professional experience, in physics, quantum engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Develop and experimentally validate high-fidelity single- and two-qubit operations.
• Design, optimise and benchmark pulse shapes using quantum control, numerical optimisation and experimental techniques.
• Characterise gate error mechanisms, including coherent error, leakage, crosstalk, drift and control-chain distortion.
• Build robust experimental pipelines, data-analysis workflows and performance benchmarks for quantum processors.
• Define calibration requirements and partner with Calibration Engineering and Calibration Operations to operationalise successful methods.
• Evaluate new devices with Processor Innovation, providing clear feedback on gate performance and processor behaviour.
• Transfer new control techniques into OQC’s production software stack, documenting methods, acceptance criteria and evidence for technical handover.

Skills

Python programming

Quantum control

Data analysis

Problem solving

Communication

Qubit control

Education

PhD or equivalent in physics/quantum engineering

Tools

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

Python

Job description

Oxford Quantum Circuits is seeking a Quantum Engineer (Control) to push high-fidelity quantum operations and develop production-ready calibration pipelines across our superconducting processor stack. You will work across Advanced Product Development, Calibration Engineering, Processor Innovation and software teams to translate control techniques into scalable methods and robust experimental workflows.

Join a world‑class team driving the next computational era with bold innovation and hands-on