Jobs at IQM Quantum Computers

Own end-to-end delivery of funded quantum technology programs, including milestones, schedules, budgets, evidence reviews, claims, risks, procurement, subcontractors, and academic partnerships. Align contract commitments with IQM’s product roadmap and customer needs while coordinating engineers, physicists, legal, finance, commercial, and executives. Support IP, licensing, follow-on funding, and investment opportunities. The role requires technical depth in hardware-software systems and experience managing externally funded, milestone-based programs.

Build and manage partnerships with suppliers of cryogenic components for quantum computers. Evaluate technical capabilities, manufacturing capacity, supply risks, and alternative sources; negotiate agreements with legal and procurement; and coordinate hardware roadmap contributions to an international grant project involving European and Japanese partners. The role requires strong cryogenic and microwave expertise, supplier management, technical business development, negotiation, and frequent international travel.

Own strategic sourcing categories for quantum-computing materials, including cryomechanics, mechanical components, cryostats, and capital equipment. Source and qualify suppliers, negotiate contracts, manage supplier quality, delivery, cost, and risk, and develop long-term supply-chain strategies. Collaborate with R&D, engineering, production, and project teams while improving sourcing processes, KPIs, ERP systems, and compliance with quality, regulatory, and ESG requirements.

Develop and test readout techniques for superconducting quantum processors, including calibration, benchmarking, modeling, simulation, and real-hardware validation. Improve QPU design and hardware, analyze experimental data, and implement methods in software frameworks. Collaborate across hardware, software, fabrication, and error-correction teams while documenting findings, presenting results, and contributing to patents.

Secure IQM’s software products and development infrastructure by coaching teams on secure development, triaging vulnerabilities, supporting incident response, coordinating penetration testing, selecting security tools, and maintaining security processes and documentation. The role also supports IEC 62443 alignment, audit preparation, risk assessments, stakeholder communication, and technical security validation of services and providers.

Plans, assembles, and operates cryogenic quantum hardware experiments in laboratory settings. Installs devices in cryostats, performs cooldowns and electrical measurements, configures instrumentation, automates data acquisition and analysis, troubleshoots experimental issues, develops measurement procedures, and contributes mechanical and electrical designs. Maintains laboratory documentation, equipment, tools, and supplies while collaborating with physicists, engineers, fabrication teams, and packaging teams.

Coordinates cleanroom and equipment hook-up projects, tracking milestones, deliverables, risks, documentation, vendors, contractors, and internal teams. Manages consumables and spare-parts inventories, preventive maintenance schedules, equipment performance reporting, site visits, and meetings. Supports MES integration and ensures operational readiness and long-term equipment reliability.

Develop calibration and recalibration strategies for quantum processing units using graph-based calibration frameworks. The role combines experimental physics, Python software development, quantum hardware engineering, and independent experiment execution and analysis. Responsibilities include improving calibration logic, building scalable calibration graphs, and supporting future quantum chip architectures. Preferred experience includes time-series analysis, production machine learning, high-performance computing, parallelization, Bayesian optimization, reinforcement learning, and AI tooling for scientific and engineering applications.

Grow IQM’s customer base and revenue in Germany across HPC centers, universities, research organizations, government, and enterprise. Manage strategic accounts, develop pipelines, identify expansion opportunities, lead complex public tenders, support public funding efforts, and close multi-stakeholder technology deals. Represent IQM at industry events, maintain customer relationships, and provide market feedback to product and marketing teams. The role requires German and English fluency and approximately 40% travel.

Develop optical communication links between room-temperature electronics and cryogenic superconducting quantum hardware. Build and operate dilution-refrigerator experiments, characterize photonic and cryogenic components, automate measurements, evaluate noise and gate fidelity, and assess scalability of quantum control systems. Contribute to technical decisions, grant projects, research proposals, documentation, and collaboration with internal teams and external research partners.

The VP of Product will define IQM’s product vision and roadmap across quantum hardware, software, integration, and cloud offerings. The role leads the Product organization, translates R&D milestones into commercially viable products, guides the transition toward industrial quantum error correction and fault-tolerant systems, identifies markets and customer segments, and partners with executives, Technology, Sales, and Commercial teams on prioritization, budgets, and strategic growth.

Manage quantum technology and R&D projects from planning through delivery. Coordinate engineering, product, finance, and external partners; track schedules, dependencies, budgets, risks, and deliverables; maintain project documentation in Jira and Confluence; prepare reports for German funding agencies; communicate technical progress to varied audiences; and improve scalable project management processes.

Lead government-funded R&D programs in Japan from initiation through audits, managing milestones, budgets, KPIs, risks, scope changes, reporting, consortium partners, and cross-functional teams. Serve as the primary contact for government agencies and evaluators, protect intellectual property, ensure funder compliance, and establish scalable project management practices. The role requires formal Japanese documentation and agency communication, business-level English, and coordination with global stakeholders.

Lead development and optimization of quantum chip fabrication processes through structured experiments. Design, execute, and analyze investigations of materials and process flows, assess feasibility and integration for QPU architectures, transition R&D into scalable production, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, mentor engineers and technicians, and document technical outputs including patents and reports.

Design, implement, simulate, and integrate VHDL FPGA IP for high-speed data processing. Benchmark and optimize throughput, latency, and resource usage. Align interfaces/protocols with hardware, firmware, and software teams. Contribute to tooling, verification, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to enable scalable quantum electronics.

Develop, refine, and characterize single- and two-qubit gates for superconducting quantum processors. Create calibration and benchmarking routines, analyze gate fidelities, collaborate across hardware and software teams, contribute to quantum error correction efforts, and (at senior level) mentor junior engineers and lead technical initiatives.

Open application inviting candidates to submit contact details, CV, and a letter of interest. IQM will proactively review submissions and share profiles with hiring teams, contacting applicants only if a suitable match is found. Applications must be submitted through the website.

Serve as the technical bridge between IQM and customers in South Korea: design and present solutions, run technical workshops, PoCs and demos, produce technical proposals for tenders, gather product feedback, support full sales cycle, represent IQM at events, and travel across APAC to drive adoption of quantum systems.

Hands-on calibration and benchmarking of superconducting QPUs: develop and optimize calibration protocols, analyze experimental data to find bottlenecks, iterate with design and fabrication teams, support automated tune-up software and QPU deployment, and collaborate across hardware and software teams to improve system-level performance.

Support and build IQM Japans administrative functions: coordinate between Japan and HQ, manage government-funded program documentation (NEDO), run office operations, handle finance and procurement admin, maintain auditable records, and create/process standard operating procedures to scale the local office.