Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Embedded
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Stuttgart
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop innovative processes for integrating photodiodes and lasers into photonic integrated circuits, work on system testing, and optimize the performance of PICs.
Your role in the team
- The future of AI computing is light, not electrons. Q.ANT is building photonic processing systems that compute with light - delivering a scalable, energy-efficient alternative to transistor-based architectures for next-generation AI and HPC applications.
- Turning breakthrough technology into real products requires more than invention. It requires the precision to connect worlds that rarely meet: photonics, electronics, and advanced packaging working as one. Hybrid integration is where that convergence happens.
- As our Senior Hybrid Integration Engineer, your mission is to drive the integration of photodiodes and lasers into photonic integrated circuits (PICs) - from first concept through full validation. You will support fully packaged PICs with integrated components and contribute directly to shaping Q.ANT's technology roadmap.
- Through hands-on system bring-up, cross-functional collaboration, and close work with external partners, you translate cutting-edge opto-electronic designs into functioning, characterized assemblies that meet performance targets.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or a closely related field - or a Master's degree with at least 3 years of directly relevant industry or research experience.
Qualifications
- Lead photodiode and laser integration projects on PICs across the full workflow: design, build, characterization, and validation.
- Perform hands-on PIC testing, optical alignment, and system bring-up, including signal readout and performance evaluation.
- Collaborate with photonics, electronics, and packaging teams; coordinate suppliers, service providers, and research partners.
- Ensure configuration control of process flows and maintain clear decision and action logs.
- Introduce automation strategies for characterization and propose new process trials based on results.
- Optimize integration yield and throughput; track KPIs including assembly yield, responsivity, TIA SNR, bandwidth, schedule adherence, cost per channel, and risks mitigated.
- Deep technical understanding of photodiode and laser physics, TIA and driver design and characterization, and hybrid integration approaches.
- Familiarity with photonic integration platforms such as LNOI, InP, or SiPh is a strong plus.
- Ability to balance complex electrical and optical trade-offs (responsivity, bandwidth, noise) and make well-reasoned design decisions independently.
- Fluent in English, German is a plus.
Experience
- Proven hands-on experience with PIC testing, optical alignment, and system bring-up in a lab or production environment.
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What we offer
- We hire for attitude and train for skills.
- We encourage self-responsibility and accelerate professional development.
- We move fast and encourage experimentation.
- You have the opportunity to be part of developing breakthrough photonic computing technology and have a lasting impact on the future of computing.
- You can be part of a passionate international, highly skilled cross-functional team.
- You will have access to the founders of the company.
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Q.ant Gmbh
Q.ant GmbH, a Deep-Tech scale-up based in Stuttgart, develops and produces solutions with photonic processors. The company specializes in innovative technologies for AI and high-performance computing and operates a pilot production for photonic chips in collaboration with the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Electronics, Automatization
Senior Hybrid Integration Engineer
- Location
- Stuttgart
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
