Senior Electrical & Electro-Optic Engineer - Quantum Memory

Photon Queue Inc.; Albuquerque, Northern (NM, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Relocation assistance

Equity

Flexible time-off

Parental leave

Job summary

Photon Queue builds the world’s leading quantum memory devices and is establishing a New Mexico branch in Albuquerque. The Senior Electrical / Electro-Optic Engineer will own the electronic systems program, designing sensing, control, and feedback electronics for fielded optical systems.

Role covers end-to-end PCB design, prototype integration, and software to configure and diagnose the control system. On-site in Albuquerque with relocation support and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing electronics for precision instrumentation.
• Hands-on PCB design from schematic through layout, fabrication, bring-up and debug.
• Experience with closed-loop control systems, including tuning and stability analysis.
• Experience with low-noise analog design and precision sensor readout.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement closed-loop feedback control for precision optical systems, integrating sensors, actuators, and custom electronics.
• Develop the control logic and tuning strategy—loop architecture, gains, drift detection, and safe recovery behavior.
• Own custom PCB design end to end, including schematic capture, layout, fabrication and assembly vendor management, bring-up, and debug.
• Write the embedded and host-side software needed to configure, run, log, and diagnose the control system.
• Build and maintain prototype optical systems as the development platform for controls work.
• Quantify system stability and performance, with the measurement rigor to make results defensible.
• Produce schematics, layouts, BOMs, test plans, and results write-ups that support production handoff and quarterly milestone reporting.

Skills

Closed-loop control

Low-noise analog design

Sensor readout

Python/C++

Optics lab hands-on

Technical communication

Education

B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering/Physics/Optical Engineering

Tools

FPGA (VHDL/Verilog)

Job description

Photon Queue builds the world’s leading quantum memory devices and is establishing a New Mexico branch in Albuquerque. The Senior Electrical / Electro-Optic Engineer will own the electronic systems program, designing sensing, control, and feedback electronics for fielded optical systems.

Role covers end-to-end PCB design, prototype integration, and software to configure and diagnose the control system. On-site in Albuquerque with relocation support and competitive compensation.