Photonics Fabrication Process Engineer - SNSPD Nanofabrication

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    "description_html": "<div class=\"job_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#2b333a;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">About Xanadu:</span></span></span></span></span><br><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#2b333a;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Xanadu&#8217;s mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;background-color:#ffffff;margin-bottom:16px;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#2b333a;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">At Xanadu, we are learners, innovators, researchers, collaborators and problem solvers. We are creating something that has never been built before.&#160; What we are doing is extremely hard, the classic moon shot. Few people in their life will be able to be a part of something like this, where if we are successful, the technologies we develop will solve some of the world&#8217;s most challenging problems and literally change the world. And that is something to be excited about!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Your role and responsibilities:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">As part of the Hardware Team, you will work with our established team of physicists and engineers to support existing efforts to improve the performance of photon number resolving (PNR) cryogenic detectors</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">. In this role you will contribute your experience spanning cleanroom fabrication, thin-film characterization and metrology, </span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">all aimed at fabricating state-of-the-art Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs)</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">. </span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">You will join the Fabrication Process Engineering Team dedicated to the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">development and optimization of fabrication processes required to build Xanadu&#8217;s photonic quantum computing hardware</span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">. A key part of the role will involve travel within Canada for cleanroom development in partner facilities. In addition, you will interface with internal stakeholders to understand the critical performance requirements of the detector technologies you will be building.&#160;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-bottom:8px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Required Qualifications and Experience:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span 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operation of clean room tools including photolithography, electron beam lithography, deposition (PVD, CVD), wet &amp; plasma etching (ICP RIE), and characterization (AFM, SEM, ellipsometry)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Knowledge of optical thin film stack metrology, characterization and optimization</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience developing cleanroom recipes and maintaining detailed process documentation</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience with statistical process control (SPC)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Excellent communication skills</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience working in a collaborative team-based development environment</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Ability to operate autonomously in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple competing priorities</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li 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Experience:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">2+ years of postdoctoral or industry experience in Physics, Engineering, Experimental Sciences, or related relevant discipline</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Hands-on experience with CMP for the planarization of thin films and multi-layer device stacks</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Understanding the physics of optical detector technologies, including superconducting devices</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience fabricating and working with cryogenic detectors or their applications, for example in TES, MKID or SNSPDs</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience writing Python code</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience with large data set analysis and statistical reporting</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style=\"line-height:1.38;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span 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While we are primarily seeking a Photonics Fabrication Process Engineer, we are open to considering candidates for a Senior role should their experience and technical leadership significantly exceed the core requirements. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and internal benchmarks. The base salary range is 120,000 - 180,000 CAD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Our values are important. They are fundamental and lay the foundation for culture at Xanadu. Learn more about our values <a href=\"https://www.xanadu.ai/values\">here</a>.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. 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