Team Lead Electronics

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Team Lead Electronics

Job description

At QuTech, the Electronics team develops advanced electronic instrumentation and supports researchers with expert advice. We are now seeking a Team Lead Electronics to drive this work forward and help shape the future of our labs.

In this role, you discuss requests with researchers, analyze their needs, and identify the underlying technical challenges. Based on this understanding, you will translate these into practical solutions that often benefit multiple projects or labs.

Your daily responsibilities include:

• Delivering instrumentation—whether home-built, off-the-shelf or adapted for quantum technology research labs.
• Advising researchers on instrumentation and measurement issues, and identifying improvements beyond the initial request.
• Initiating and driving short and long term projects by translating research needs into electronics proposals and instruments.
• Creating roadmaps, definitions, and requirements for delivering electronics to the labs.
• Conducting independent research on electronics for quantum research.
• Staying informed about developments in the electronics market related to quantum research.
• Coordinating the activities of team members within projects or assignments.
• Maintaining an extensive catalogue of previously developed electronics.
• Representing and promoting the team within the organization.
• Participating in organizational or technical working groups, committees, or project teams.

As team lead, you guide an autonomous engineering team through technical discussions, ensuring high quality results and building shared expertise. You coordinate long term development projects, serve as the main contact for management, and maintain regular communication with other engineering teams and university support groups.

This role also includes an educational component. You and your team teach and update an electronics course for our researchers, and you supervise HBO-level internship students.

Requirements

Our ideal candidate has a broad background in both analog and digital electronics. The role spans many technical domains, including low noise analog frontends, RF and microwave engineering, EMC and isolation, signal filtering, ADC/DACs, PCB and high frequency design. Familiarity with lab instrumentation is particularly valuable. You do not need to be an expert in every area, but you should feel confident navigating all of them.

You bring:

• A master’s degree in Electronics (or equivalent experience), or a degree in quantum related Physics with demonstrable electronics expertise.
• Leadership experience managing a small technical team.
• A practical, hands on, and analytical mindset, able to provide quick technical solutions.
• The ability to plan and reason about high level system architectures.
• The ability to translate research questions into electronics requirements and vice versa.
• A proactive, collaborative, and self starting attitude.
• Interest in cutting edge Physics; knowledge of quantum systems is an advantage.
• Genuine interest in your colleagues’ work and eagerness to share your own.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills; teaching experience is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English; Dutch proficiency is preferred, or willingness to learn it.

QuTech

At QuTech, we work on radically new technologies with world-changing potential. Our mission: to develop scalable prototypes of a quantum computer and a quantum internet by integrating world-class research and groundbreaking innovation.