Skip navigation
#201053

Application Engineer

Goleta, CA
Date:

Overview

Placement Type:

Temporary

Salary:

$92.51 to $102.79/hr

Start Date:

05.01.2025

Project Overview: 

The full potential of quantum computing will be unlocked with a large-scale computer capable of complex, error-corrected computations. Our client’s mission is to build this computer and unlock solutions to classically intractable problems. Their roadmap is focused on advancing the capabilities of quantum computing and enabling meaningful applications.

Overall Responsibilities: 

The individual will develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate the performance and reliability of our client’s superconducting quantum processor components. This role involves rigorous design and execution of tests at room and low temperature (including cycling cryogenic systems) to verify cryogenic RF devices, including superconducting resonators and circulators, ensuring adherence to design specifications and accelerating the development of a world-leading quantum computing service.

Top Daily Responsibilities: 

  • Develop and execute comprehensive verification plans for cryogenic RF devices, ensuring adherence to design specifications and performance targets.
  • Conduct rigorous testing of superconducting resonators, circulators, and related components, analyzing data to identify potential failure modes and areas for improvement.
  • Establish and maintain standardized test protocols and procedures, promoting consistency and accuracy in RF measurement and validation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate verification findings into the design and development process, driving continuous improvement of cryogenic RF systems.
  • Generate detailed test reports and documentation, providing clear and concise analysis of results to support design decisions and ensure device reliability.

Mandatory Skills/Qualifications: 

  • Experience with RF measurement and analysis techniques.
  • Familiarity with cryogenic systems or superconducting devices.
  • Proficiency in data analysis and technical documentation.

Non-Essential Skills/Qualifications: 

  • Python or scripting language experience

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $92.51 to $102.79 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

Client Description

A giant in the Tech Industry, this company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do—from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.

A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:

Expanding Opportunity – Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.
Protecting Users – Keeping billions of people safer online.
Including all Voices – Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.
Responding to Crisis – Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.
Advancing Sustainability – Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission — to foster sustainability at scale.

Are you ready to join the journey?

Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits

Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.