Senior Electrical Characterisation Engineer

About the role

Quantum Motion is seeking a Senior Electrical Characterisation Engineer to join the Process Integration team in London. This role sits at the intersection of semiconductor manufacturing and quantum hardware, focusing on understanding, qualifying, and improving silicon devices for quantum processors. You will use electrical characterisation and large-scale data analysis to identify root causes of device behaviour and provide actionable feedback to improve yield and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Drive electrical characterisation of fabricated silicon devices, developing and improving high-throughput screening methods.
• Turn electrical data into manufacturing insight by connecting patterns and failures 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 feedback for improving device performance and consistency.
• 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
• Data analysis

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.