Measurement Hardware Engineer, Quantum AI

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science or Technology or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience interfacing with hardware and experiment execution.

• Experience in calibrating, operating, and benchmarking quantum systems, and related technologies.

• Experience with data analysis and data visualization.

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in Physics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in collaborative software environments (e.g., version control, code review, style guides, etc.) building tools for other engineers and end-users.
• Experience with microwave engineering, circuit design, or test-and-measurement equipment and practices, in the context of quantum system control and readout.
• Experience with micro fabrication techniques and tools with knowledge of how these can affect quantum device performance.
• Ability to debug hardware and software issues and create tests.

About the job

Our team is composed of researchers and engineers that focus on the research, development, and deployment of superconducting quantum processors and related components. Our mission is to increase the scalability and performance of our systems at the hardware level, through microwave circuit design, materials science, micro fabrication, and 3D integration techniques.

As a Quantum Measurement Engineer, you will own and streamline the characterization and measurement procedure for our superconducting devices (e.g., quantum processors and amplifiers). You will be responsible for ensuring we have an efficient and reliable procedure for initialization, characterization, and benchmarking of devices, as well as prototype devices.

As our project is in both research and engineering, your role will be to work with research scientists and engineers to test superconducting chips by cycling dilution refrigerators and implementing/developing a standard set of characterization measurements. Your research will generate design and fabrication decisions which will improve our chips performance. Your position will be critical to the advent of Quantum Computing as an industrial technology.

At Google, our users come first, and the Systems Infrastructure team is at the heart of that promise. We build the technologies that transform the way we think about doing business. Whether working on our cloud systems, researching the latest in computer technology or keeping Google's internal systems humming, Googlers and users alike rely on us to keep things running. We're back-end experts: protecting your privacy and ensuring your security.

Responsibilities

• Work with research scientists and engineers to test samples to characterize processors, amplifiers, and components, and contribute to characterization software.
• Work with research scientists to synthesize measured characteristics into actionable changes to improve our cutting edge processors.
• Interface between research and fabrication teams, and assist in training new team members to calibrate and run quantum processors.
• Operate, own, maintain, and build-out multiple measurement setups (i.e., dilution refrigerators, microwave and DC cabling, filters, amplifiers, control electronics, etc.) to maximize efficiency of each cool down.

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