Quantum Digital Design Engineer

Overview

People and Culture Manager @ Q*Bird | Talent Acquisition Specialist

Join Our Team! We are looking for a new team member to focus on digital designs and digital signal processing on FPGAs, for a variety of research and development projects with our quantum networking devices. Your role entails designing, building, testing, and documenting such systems, while keeping alignment with other scientists and engineers on the team. You’ll be one of the core digital design engineers, a real hands-on coder, working with low-level FPGA logic (think DSP, embedded RF SOCs, VHDL).

You’ll be really hands-on, writing, verifying, and integrating high-reliability logic to produce, detect, and synchronise qubits between systems, and responsible for coming up with proposals to solve the team’s challenges: If the team needs something from the digital domain, it’ll be your job to figure out what the requirements truly are, design the dataflows, implement the logic, and test your solutions. You and your team are responsible for the FPGA design as a whole, including top-level architecture, clocking structure, pin selection, and communication with other systems. You’ll integrate your sub-system into the larger system, alongside engineers and physicists. You’re good at reading and understanding datasheets and supporting documentation to figure out solutions.

You are passionate about advancing quantum and networking technologies and want to contribute to new ground-breaking tech. Familiarity with quantum is not required (we’ll teach you that), but you do work independently, are a proactive, hands-on person, and you can easily adapt to rapidly changing priorities. Above all, you’re a team player and excited to work in a mixed team of hardware engineers, software engineers, and scientists.

Your Profile

You are someone with ideally 3+ years of experience and,

• Proven skills in digital signal processing, electronics, handling control loops, and automating processes.
• Experience with FPGA development in a professional R&D environment, ideally including formal processes and product delivery.
• A master’s degree in engineering, electronics, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience with VHDL (Verilog or SV experience also acceptable), Python, and ideally also Rust.
• Insightful hands-on experience with industry-standard EDA flows and methodologies.
• Experience with verification frameworks like UVM, cocotb or similar (we use cocotb, but our testbenches will look familiar to you if you’ve used UVM before).
• Experience with hardware-in-loop testing.
• A keen interest in writing and maintaining FPGA tooling: we operate with a small team and rely heavily on in-house tooling (written in Python) to manage our large and complex design.
• Interest/experience in using complex types and VHDL-2008/2019 features to improve FPGA code quality and development effectiveness.
• Experience interfacing your work with embedded analog/mixed-signal design blocks and with designs from other teams.
• PCB Design experience is not required, but would be a plus.
• Demonstrated skills in the entire development cycle (ideally at a commercial vendor of communications/security equipment): Design, implementation, review, unit and functional testing, test-driven development, simulation, version control (git), requirements and defect tracking, and hardware integration

We don’t expect that the successful applicant will satisfy all the above points, but has expertise in key areas and significant knowledge in most other areas.

About Q*Bird

Q*Bird is on a mission to enable quantum connectivity by developing the hardware and software needed for the quantum Internet. We design, build, test, and produce systems for the next generation of secure communication. Our work accelerates quantum Internet adoption by building networking systems, supporting network infrastructure, and collaborating with industry and academia.

Our devices are the result of advancements across multiple disciplines—from optical systems and high-end hardware platforms to robust embedded software and innovative networking protocols. This means our team is a vibrant mix of experts with backgrounds in physics, engineering, software development, academic research, and real-world industry experience.

Over the past year, we’ve experienced remarkable growth, scaling from 14 to 22 team members, and we’re on track to reach 30 by the end of 2025. With a clear vision for the future and ongoing momentum, Q*Bird is on a continuous growth trajectory, bringing cutting-edge quantum solutions to commercial, industry, and government partners.

We’re motivated by solving tough challenges, and we’re proud to be working on projects that make a real impact. Our dreams are ambitious, and we’re excited to welcome talented, curious, and driven teammates to help us make quantum networking a reality.

What Q*Bird Offers

• Opportunity to be part of the quantum revolution in a quantum company, and to build the next generation of digital infrastructure. Join us to create the Quantum Future!
• Starting Date: As soon as available.
• Full-Time Employment.
• Competitive salary package aligned with your skills and experience.
• Flexible working hours.
• 33 days of annual leave and holiday allowance.
• Travel and personal care, and growth allowance.
• Education & Training budget.
• Company-sponsored social events.
• A young, energetic, fun team of highly skilled physicists, engineers, and industry experts, with an open working culture.
• An international team that places a value on equality and diversity, no matter the race, religion, background, gender, or any of the differences that give each of us that unique perspective to strengthen the team.
• Plenty of room for new initiatives and new ideas, and a chance to develop yourself at the cutting edge of technology.

How to apply

To apply for the position or to learn more about the position, contact us at

Location: Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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