Senior Quantum Field Engineer (Quantum Engineering)

Location: United Kingdom; hybrid workplace with regular international travel to customer sites, including approximately 30–50% travel and up to 10–25% international travel as stated in the requirements.

Company

hirify.global develops superconducting quantum computing systems and deploys them for customer use.

What you will do

• Own technical work during quantum-system deployments, including bring-up, experiments or calibrations, validation, and documentation.
• Debug failures across wiring, electronics, devices, software, and infrastructure, isolate root causes, and drive cross-functional resolution.
• Monitor deployed systems for regressions, drift, and outages, and support cloud operation.
• Act as the primary technical contact for customers and communicate experimental results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Characterize qubits and readout, troubleshoot cryogenic microwave hardware, or calibrate and optimize single- and two-qubit gates depending on the assigned track.
• Improve internal tooling, automation, documentation, and deployment workflows in collaboration with R&D teams.

Requirements

• PhD in Physics, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent degree with relevant industry or postdoctoral experience; alternatively, an MS/BS with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience with superconducting qubit devices and proficiency in Python in a scientific or engineering context.
• Strong systematic debugging skills across the full measurement chain and the ability to work in customer-facing field environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including experimental reporting and briefings for non-specialists.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally to support customer deployments.
• Track-specific experience with cryogenic microwave hardware, or with calibration and characterization of 1Q and 2Q gates, gate error sources, Git, and formal code review.

Nice to have

• Experience operating dilution refrigerators and diagnosing qubit failure modes.
• Experience with collaborative software development, CI, and code review.
• Experience with automated recalibration, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience with pulse-level gate optimization or rotational on-call production support.
• Previous customer-facing or field engineering experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across external deployments and internal quantum R&D.
• Collaborate with customer-side personnel and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Contribute to a culture focused on diversity and inclusion.
• Support the development of quantum technology intended to serve broad communities.