About this role
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of hardware engineers responsible for PCB design, bring-up, and test of quantum control system instruments.
- Build and drive strong relationships with PCB fabrication and contract assembly vendors including managing quoting and lead times, and partnering to consistently hit quality and delivery targets.
- Lead root-cause investigation and corrective action when prototype boards come back with defects.
- Manage the product roadmap and subsystem delivery schedules for both commercial and research projects.
- Partner with design and test engineers on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) input during the design phase, catching manufacturability issues before a board ever reaches a vendor.
- Work closely with Atom Computing's quantum physicists, optical engineers, and hardware engineers to understand use cases and deliver hardware that addresses their needs.
Experience & Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
- 10+ years of experience as a hardware engineer, including significant hands-on work with PCB fabrication and contract electronics assembly vendors specifically.
- 2+ years managing a team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team delivering complex hardware projects from design through manufacturing.
- Deep working knowledge of PCB fabrication and assembly processes, capabilities, and common failure modes.
- Comfort working in a low-to-mid-volume, high-complexity build environment with applications to precision instruments, aerospace, photonics, or similar.
- Demonstrated experience with root-cause and corrective-action processes for hardware quality issues.
Preferred Qualifications
- Existing relationships with PCB fab houses or contract assembly shops in the Boulder area.
- Analog electronics design experience.
- RF electronics / software-defined radio experience.