Microsoft
Senior Quantum Measurement Engineer
$120K–$261K
West Lafayette, IN · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 6+ years with a bachelor's degree, 4+ with a master's, or 1+ with a doctorate; equivalent experience is an alternative. Preferred: 8+ years in several specified technical areas; additional degree-based alternatives are 8+ years with a bachelor's, 6+ with a master's, or 3+ with a doctorate, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develops and executes low-temperature electrical characterization of quantum materials and devices to improve qubit performance and scalability.
What you'll do
- Perform measurement techniques and develop experiments for quantum materials and devices.
- Identify opportunities to streamline and automate quantum measurements.
- Analyze experiment results and collaborate across technical fields to guide future experiments.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 6+ years’ experience in industry or R&D; OR master's degree in a related field and 4+ years; OR doctorate in a related field and 1+ years; OR equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check requirements upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Provide citizenship or qualifying residency/protected-status documentation for export-control eligibility assessment.
- Ability to leverage AI tools and design and build AI agents/copilots for research and experimental workflows.
Nice to have
- 8+ years of experience with cryogenic electrical transport measurements of mesoscopic semiconductor or superconductor devices, sub-Kelvin cryogenics, and Python coding/version control tools.
- Experience with superconductor-semiconductor hybrid materials or III/V semiconductors, RF characterization of superconducting resonators, and interdisciplinary materials/process optimization.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Git, dilution refrigerator, He3 cryostat, radio-frequency (RF)
AI focus
Use AI tools for modeling, research gathering, and task automation; build AI agents/copilots for experiment setup, log triage, measurement reports, protocol templates, and knowledge retrieval.
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