Team Lead Electronics

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft); Delft; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ABP pension plan

Education opportunities

Flexible working week

Leave and holidays

Job summary

QuTech is seeking a Team Lead Electronics in Delft to guide a small three-person electronics team. The role combines leadership with hands-on design, development, and support of measurement electronics for quantum labs.

You will set directions, ensure quality, and foster collaboration while actively contributing to your team's growth. This role involves teaching an electronics course and supervising HBO-level interns.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electronics or equivalent experience, or a degree in quantum related Physics with demonstrable electronics expertise.
• Leadership experience, managing a small technical team.
• Practical, hands-on, and analytical mindset with ability to provide quick technical solutions.
• Ability to plan and reason about high level system architectures.
• Ability to translate research questions into electronics requirements and vice versa.
• Proactive, collaborative, and self-starting attitude.
• Interest in cutting edge Physics; knowledge of quantum systems is an advantage.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills; teaching experience is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English; Dutch proficiency is preferred, or willingness to learn it.

Responsibilities

• Deliver instrumentation for quantum laboratories, home-built or off-the-shelf, or adapted as needed.
• Advise researchers on instrumentation and measurement issues, identifying improvements.
• Initiate and drive short and long term electronics projects translating research needs into instruments.
• Create roadmaps, definitions, and requirements for delivering electronics to labs.
• Conduct independent research on electronics for quantum research.
• Stay informed about developments in the electronics market related to quantum research.
• Coordinate activities of team members within projects.
• Maintain an extensive catalogue of previously developed electronics.
• Represent and promote the team within the organization.
• Participate in organizational or technical working groups or project teams.

Skills

Leadership experience

Hands-on engineering

Analytical mindset

System architectures

Collaborative attitude

English proficiency

Self-starter

Willingness to learn Dutch

Education

Master's degree in Electronics

Degree in quantum-related Physics with electronics expertise

Tools

PCB design

RF/microwave engineering

Lab instrumentation

EMC and isolation

Job description

Join us and shape the quantum devices of tomorrow!

Job description

At QuTech, the Electronics team develops advanced electronic instrumentation and supports researchers with expert advice. We are now seeking for a Team Lead Electronics to drive this work forward and help shape the future of our labs.

In this role, you will lead a small team of three specialists. Leadership is an integral part of the position and is reflected across all aspects of the work, including technical design, team guidance, anticipating future needs, and initiating new concepts. You will be responsible for setting directions, ensuring quality, and fostering collaboration within the team while actively contributing the team’s growth..

Given the size and nature of the team, this is a hands‑on technical leadership role. “Hands‑on” means you are deeply involved in the design, realization, and support of measurement electronics, working closely with researchers and contributing directly to technical solutions rather than only steering from a distance.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who takes initiative and actively guides the team’s direction through both leadership and expertise.

Your daily responsibilities include:

• Delivering instrumentation- whether home-built, off-the-shelf or adapted for quantum technology research labs.
• Advising researchers on instrumentation and measurement issues. Identifying improvements beyond the initial request
• Initiating and driving short and long term projects by translating research needs into electronics proposals and instruments.
• Creating roadmaps, definitions, and requirements for delivering electronics to the labs.
• Conducting independent research on electronics for quantum research.
• Staying informed about developments in the electronics market, related to quantum research.
• Coordinating the activities of team members within projects or assignments.
• Maintaining an extensive catalogue of previously developed electronics.
• Representing and promoting the team within the organization.
• Participating in organizational or technical working groups, committees, or project teams.

As team lead, you guide an autonomous engineering team through technical discussions, ensuring high‑quality results and building shared expertise. You coordinate long‑term development projects, serve as the main contact for management, and maintain regular communication with other engineering teams and university support groups.

This role also includes an educational component. You and your team teach and update an electronics course for our researchers, and you supervise HBO-level internship students.

Requirements

Our ideal candidate has a broad background in both analog and digital electronics. The role spans many technical domains, including low noise analog frontends, RF and microwave engineering, EMC and isolation, signal filtering, ADC/DACs, PCB and high frequency design. Familiarity with lab instrumentation is particularly valuable. You do not need to be an expert in every area, but you should feel confident navigating all of them.

• A master’s degree in Electronics (or equivalent experience), or a degree in quantum related Physics with demonstrable electronics expertise.
• Leadership experience, managing small technical team.
• A practical, hands on, and analytical mindset, able to provide quick technical solutions.
• The ability to plan and reason about high level system architectures.
• The ability to translate research questions into electronics requirements and vice versa.
• A proactive, collaborative, and self starting attitude.
• Interest in cutting edge Physics; knowledge of quantum systems is an advantage.
• Genuine interest in your colleagues’ work and eagerness to share your own.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills; teaching experience is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English; Dutch proficiency is preferred, or willingness to learn it.

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

Working at TU Delft means contributing to solutions that really make a difference.

For over 180 years, we have been training engineers who make an impact worldwide in companies, government bodies, or as entrepreneurs. Our alumni turn knowledge into concrete solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow.These challenges are changing rapidly. That is why we focus on themes such as energy, climate, digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), and smart mobility every day. Our education and research are directly aligned with what society needs now and in the future.

At TU Delft, our people make the difference. With their knowledge and curiosity, our staff provide a high-quality education and conduct pioneering research that extends beyond the campus. You will have the opportunity to take the initiative, work with others, and grow as a professional.Working at TU Delft means join an international community of professionals and students. Together, we create knowledge, innovations, and solutions that help move the world forward.

QuTech

At QuTech, we work on radically new technologies with world‑changing potential. Our mission: to develop scalable prototypes of a quantum computer and a quantum internet by integrating world‑class research and groundbreaking innovation. Through excellence, relevance, and leadership, we cultivate a vibrant quantum technology ecosystem. Together, we are creating the quantum future, because we believe that quantum technologies can be a game changer in many societal and economic sectors, including health, agriculture and safety.

Have a look at ourvideo and get a glimpse of QuTech.

Conditions of employment

• Duration of contract is 1 year Temporarily with a posibility for extension.
• A job of 38-40 hours per week.
• A salary based on Scale 11 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €4925 - €6682 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end‑of‑year bonus of 8.3%.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave.
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Will you need to relocate to the Netherlands for this job? TU Delft is committed to make your move as smooth as possible! The HR unit, Coming to Delft Service, offers information on their website to help you prepare your relocation. In addition, Coming to Delft Service organises events to help you settle in the Netherlands, and expand your (social) network in Delft. A Dual Career Programme is available, to support your accompanying partner with their job search in the Netherlands.

For more information about this position, you can contact Raymond Schouten, Quantum Engineer and Team Lead Electronics at [e-mail].

For questions concerning the procedure please contact Audrey Monje, Senior Talent Acquisition at QuTech at [e-mail].