Senior Electrical Characterisation Engineer

About the role

The Senior Electrical Characterisation Engineer will join the Process Integration team to understand, qualify, and improve the silicon devices used in quantum processors. This role sits at the intersection of semiconductor manufacturing and quantum hardware, requiring the use of electrical characterisation and large-scale data analysis to identify root causes of device behaviour and improve fabrication processes. The successful candidate will work closely with foundries and engineering teams to enhance the yield, quality, and scalability of quantum technology.

Responsibilities

• Drive electrical characterisation of fabricated silicon devices, developing and improving high-throughput screening methods.
• Turn electrical data into manufacturing insight by identifying patterns and connecting them back to semiconductor process steps.
• Develop automated measurement and test infrastructure, creating robust Python-based test routines and instrument-control workflows.
• Analyse large-scale electrical datasets using statistical process control and yield analysis to monitor wafer uniformity and process drift.
• Work directly with semiconductor foundries and process engineers to provide actionable feedback for improving device performance.
• Build scalable characterisation processes, establishing testing standards, calibration procedures, and data pipelines.

Required skills

• Semiconductor device testing
• Reliability engineering
• Electrical characterisation
• Yield analysis
• CMOS fabrication
• Semiconductor device physics
• Wafer probe stations
• Python
• Instrument control
• Automated test execution

Nice to have

• Quantum device physics
• Cryogenic electrical characterisation
• Statistical analysis
• Automated wafer-level testing

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Semiconductor Physics, Materials Science or a closely related discipline

Benefits

• Share options scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Group private medical insurance
• Life Assurance
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

About the Company

Quantum Motion is a fast-growing quantum computing scale-up based in London, founded by researchers from UCL and Oxford University. The company develops quantum processors based on industrial-grade silicon chips and is backed by top-tier investors.