Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Stuttgart
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Job Field
- Embedded
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop test and integration processes for complex electro-optical systems, optimize manufacturing, and conduct system analyses to ensure quality and efficiency in production.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As our (Senior) Production Engineer (m/f/d), your mission is to assemble, integrate, and validate complex electro-optical and electronic-mechanical systems.
- You will establish stable test and integration processes, optimize workflows, and ensure small-series production ramp-up runs smoothly, enabling Q.ANT's next-generation servers to be delivered on time and at scale.
- Assemble, integrate, and test advanced photonic and electronic systems, ensuring repeatability, quality, and performance.
- Develop and standardize assembly sequences, test protocols, and production documentation to enable scalable manufacturing.
- Perform hands-on troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and system-level debugging to prevent rework, yield loss, and field failures.
- Zusammenarbeit mit F&E, Qualitätssicherung, Lieferkette und Produktion, um einen reibungslosen Übergabeprozess, Testabdeckung und Integrationsbereitschaft sicherzustellen.
- Optimize workstations, tooling, and end-to-end test sequences to support efficient ramp-up from prototypes to small-series production.
- Drive continuous process improvement and quality assurance initiatives, including verification workflows, structured problem solving, and implementation of corrective actions.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, Optics, Microsystems Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.
Qualifications
- Strong practical skills in optical and electronic assembly, hardware debugging, failure analysis, and system-level testing (DVT, PVT, SVT).
- Desirable knowledge in high-speed digital and RF fundamentals, signal and power integrity, as well as basic automation or programming (Python preferred).
- Fluent in English; German or another European language is a plus.
Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in system integration, testing, and verification of complex electro-optical or electronic-mechanical systems.
- Experience documenting test processes, verification instructions, and quality workflows for reproducible and scalable manufacturing.
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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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About Your Employer
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