Postdoc Optical Circuits Quantum Technology

• Join a fast-paced, tightly aligned team building, testing, and iterating cutting-edge technology in a startup-style environment.
• Operate as an an end-to-end problem solver, taking ownership of problems and driving them forward independently, while staying closely connected with the team.
• Draw on both your own expertise and that of the team to rapidly identify problems, propose solutions, and prototype, test, and validate new ideas.
• Design and build robust optical circuits incorporating new types of elements, such as gain media, active positioning elements (piezos, stepper motors), cavities, spectroscopy cells, and photonic integrated circuits.
• Develop robotic manufacturing techniques to place, align, and integrate these new components into scalable production workflows.
• Build and benchmark real, usable optical systems such as laser lock circuits and laser sources, iterating quickly based on experimental results.
• Contribute to prototyping, validating, and debugging production processes.
• Work with users to ensure solutions are practical, reliable, and genuinely delightful to use.
• If successful, have the opportunity to join a spin-off, ship advanced optical circuits to customers, and grow with the company as part of the core technical team.

What they ask

• Excitement about growing a small startup into a successful company.
• Love for creatively solving technical puzzles.
• A recent PhD in experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics.
• Good skills with optics.
• Some experience with electronics and control software.
• Great team working and learning skills.
• Initiative and good time management skills.
• Good communication skills in oral and written English.

• Temporary employment contract.
• Salary determined based on experience and seniority.
• Holiday allowance (8%) and a year-end bonus (8.3%).
• Pension scheme with ABP.
• Opportunities for career development and growth through training courses and open lectures.
• Support for relocating to the Netherlands with your family (daycare, schooling, health insurance, partner support via IDCN-network).
• A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants.
• The UFO profile Researcher is applicable.
• The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.