Staff QPU Layout Engineer

Job description

About The Role and Team: As a Staff QPU Layout Engineer , you will drive the physical implementation and verification for a cutting-edge quantum processor platform. You’ll be a go-to expert for full-chip and block-level layouts, ensuring designs are reliable, manufacturable, and ready for tapeout. You will be hands-on with layout while also contributing to the transition from research prototypes to production using industry-standard semiconductor tools and processes.You should enjoy solving problems with solutions flexible to changing rules while maintaining engineering discipline. The role involves collaborating closely with experimentalists, device modellers, and designers, bridging research and industry-standard approaches. It is not a conventional IC layout role: our process is bespoke and evolving, requiring flexibility and strong problem-solving. However, it’s grounded in industrial tools and practices and thus best suited to those with a strong industry foundation. Our Team: Since 2021 our team has been listed every year in the “Top 100 Startups worth watching” in the EE Times , and our technology breakthroughs have been featured in The Telegraph , BBC and the New Statesman...