SD-25052 SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN PYTHON-BASED CONTROL OF QUANTUM EXPERIMENTS

The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is a Research and Technology Organization (RTO) active in the fields of materials, environment and IT. By transforming scientific knowledge into technologies, smart data and tools, LIST empowers citizens in their choices, public authorities in their decisions and businesses in their strategies.

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Your LIST benefits

• An organization with a passion for impact and strong RDI partnerships in Luxembourg and Europe that works on responsible and independent research projects
• Sustainable by design, empowering our belief that we play an essential role in paving the way to a green society
• Innovative infrastructures and exceptional labs occupying more than 5,000 square metres, including innovations in all that we do
• An environment encouraging curiosity, innovation and entrepreneurship in all areas
• Personalized learning programme to foster our staff’s soft and technical skills
• Multicultural and international work environment with more than 50 nationalities represented in our workforce
• Diverse and inclusive work environment empowering our people to fulfil their personal and professional ambitions
• Gender-friendly environment with multiple actions to attract, develop and retain women in science
• 32 days’ paid annual leave, 11 public holidays, 13-month salary, statutory health insurance
• Flexible working hours, home working policy and access to lunch vouchers

Temporary contract | 24 months | Belval Are you passionate about research? So are we! Come and join us

How will you contribute?

Join us to revolutionise the quantum world with semiconductor quantum chips!

You will be part of one of the leading groups in semiconductor quantum technology, LIST’s Quantum Materials Team, led by Dr. Florian Kaiser. Our team’s ambition is to develop cost-effective semiconductor quantum technology for tomorrow’s quantum internet and quantum computers.

As a software engineer, you will help us to streamline our diverse efforts on a variety of experimental setups, which includes:

• Creation of hardware-related software tools for experiment control using Python. You will establish a reliable software framework for the use of experimental equipment such as configurable data acquisition cards, microwave synthesisers, arbitrary waveform generators, lasers, single-photon detectors, cameras, and light modulators.
• Development of creative and innovative automation software for high-throughput quantum-hardware preselection and characterisation using image recognition and machine learning tools. As R&D institution we are highly interested to disseminate innovative solutions in scientific publications, as well as filing patents.
• Support for the team in all programming tasks to create maintainable and documented software solutions.

In the framework of controlling small quantum computers and memories, we anticipate the development of high-speed event-driven decision making, likely to require the use of FPGAs or CPLD based hardware.

In the framework of setting up the Luxembourgish Quantum Internet, we anticipate collaborative efforts with LIST’s ITIS department, as well as the SnT department of the University of Luxembourg.

Overall, your software support will stand as a fundamental cornerstone in the realisation of cost-effective semiconductor quantum technologies that will be used in the field in the near future.

Is Your profile described below? Are you our future colleague? Apply now!

Education

• BSc degree (or higher) in software engineering, electrical engineering, or physics.
• We are open to discuss the possibilities for a PhD position in systems engineering or similar. In this case, a MSc degree is mandatory.

Experience and skills

• Experience in object-oriented programming using Python is anticipated (ideally 3 years+).
• Hardware-related programming experience (ideally for scientific equipment).
• Knowledge and experience in image recognition and machine learning are advantageous.
• Excellent oral communication/presentation and documentation skills.
• Collaborative skills, initiative, result oriented, organisation, and capacity to work in a highly international environment.
• Team spirit is a critical requirement.
• Ability to effectively and reliably coordinate with the group.

Language skills

• Good level both written and spoken English.