Your mission
As Quantum Engineer you will collaborate with leading scientists and experts in quantum technology. In close collaboration with software, mechanical, and electrical engineers and our algorithm teams you will design and build up quantum computers for our customers.
Your role & responsibilities:- Module Leadership: Take charge of a key module in our quantum computer (like imaging system, tweezer generation, part of laser distribution system).
- System Integration: Integrate and optimize your module with the overall system.
- Project Rotation: Move to new projects after successful integration.
- Collaboration: Work with software, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams for development and implementation.
- Ongoing Learning: Keep up with AMO physics advancements to improve system performance.
Your responsibilities
Necessary requirements:- A PhD or Postdoc with a strong background in AMO physics.
- Hands-on experience in setting up and operating lasers and optical systems.
During your PhD or Postdoc you should have come into contact with one or more of the following topics:
- Atom arrays based on optical tweezers
- Alkaline-earth-metal atoms
- Rydberg atoms
- UHV systems for ultracold atoms or trapped ions
- High numerical aperture imaging & addressing
- Highly stable (in frequency and amplitude) lasers
Supplementary skills: - Programming experience (i.e., python)
- Electronics design
- Mechanical design
- Data analysis
- Industry experience is a huge plus
If you have a PhD in AMO physics and have worked with neutral atoms or ions, it is very likely that you fulfill these requirements. We are happy to get your application!
About us
planqc builds neutral-atom quantum computers based on arrays of optically trapped atoms controlled with high-precision laser systems. Our platform combines technologies from optical lattice clocks, quantum gas microscopes and fast Rydberg gates into a scalable computing architecture.
Founded in 2022 as a spin-off from MPQ and LMU Munich, we translate more than a decade of AMO research into deployable quantum systems. Our work spans vacuum and laser hardware, control electronics, firmware, system software and algorithm integration. We focus on turning complex experimental setups into stable, reproducible systems that operate in real computing environments.
Behind this technology is a team that pushes technical boundaries, values open exchange and shared ownership. Physicists, engineers, software developers and business specialists work closely together, often across disciplinary limits. We believe progress comes from combining deep expertise with practical engineering and from giving people the responsibility and trust to shape their domain.
As we grow across our locations in Garching, Ulm and Innsbruck, we continue to build an environment we continue to build a company where people take ownership, learn from each other, and directly shape the systems we bring into operation.
