--- title: 'Integrated Photonics Team leader at QuiX Quantum BV' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/integrated-photonics-team-leader-quix-quantum-bv-netherlands-germany-afpwvntkqnbq' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Integrated Photonics Team leader at QuiX Quantum BV - **Company:** QuiX Quantum BV - **Location:** Netherlands / Germany - **Posted:** 2026-01-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** http://quixquantum.com/careers/job?gh_jid=4769744101 ## Job description Integrated Photonics Team Leader Quix Quantum is building the next generation of photonic quantum technologies. We are now looking for an Integrated Photonics Team Leader to drive the development of our photonic hardware platform and lead a multidisciplinary team at the heart of our technology. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who is excited to shape a world-class photonics platform from concept to production. ## What You’ll Do As Integrated Photonics Team Leader, you will own and drive Quix Quantum’s photonic hardware stack and platform strategy. You will: - Lead, manage, and mentor a multidisciplinary integrated photonics team (design, layout, and research), ensuring technical excellence and high-quality documentation. - Own the end-to-end photonic hardware stack, including photonic circuits, electronics/ASIC interfaces, detectors, packaging, and characterisation. - Drive platform and PDK development, focusing on fabrication-robust design, tolerance analysis, and optimisation. - Manage relationships with photonic foundries, including wafer-run planning, process splits, PCM/DCM definition, and mask sign-off. - Support assembly, packaging, and hybrid photonic–electronic integration. - Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, electronics, software, characterisation, quantum science teams, and external partners. ## What You Bring Education - PhD in Integrated Photonics, Microelectronics, Applied Physics, or a closely related field. - Strong academic background in integrated photonics. ## Experience - 5+ years of hands-on experience in integrated photonics design and development. - Proven experience leading and mentoring technical teams. - Demonstrated success taking PIC designs through full fabrication cycles with industrial foundries, including Si, SiN, and EO modulator platforms. - Experience with PDK or photonic platform development, including robustness and fabrication tolerance analysis. - Strong understanding of optical, electrical, and thermal co-design and integration. - Hands-on experience with assembly, packaging, and chip-level integration. Why Join Quix Quantum? At Quix Quantum, you’ll work at the cutting edge of quantum photonics, alongside a highly skilled and ambitious team. You’ll have real ownership, influence over the technology roadmap, and the opportunity to shape a platform that will define the future of quantum computing. ## About QuiX Quantum BV ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: QuiX Quantum is the European market leader in photonic quantum computing, building deployable, integrated photonic quantum computers for data centers and HPC environments. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, raised in July 2025) - **Headquarters**: Enschede, Netherlands (with additional offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ulm and Stuttgart, Germany) - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Dr. Jelmer Renema (CEO) and Dr. Stefan Hengesbach (Chief Scientist) – full founding team details not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Photonic quantum computing hardware and systems - **Target customers**: B2B – data centers, high-performance computing (HPC) centers, supercomputing facilities, research institutions, and government/defense organizations - **Mission**: “Delivering quantum powerful and deployable at scale” – engineering photonic quantum computers that can run in standard data center environments without cryogenics ## Products & Services - **Special Purpose Quantum Computer**: A photonic quantum computer optimized for specific applications (e.g., risk modeling, fraud detection) that operates in data centers, using hybrid quantum-classical architecture. - **Quantum Photonic Processor**: A patented, reconfigurable photonic chip (20 optical channels, 2.9 dB loss, >99% transformation fidelity) that is plug-and-play, temperature stable, and fully calibrated – the core component of QuiX’s systems. - **Universal Quantum Computer**: A field-upgradeable, modular photonic quantum computer (currently in development, with a public roadmap to logical qubits announced in May 2026). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $42.2M (LinkedIn data) across multiple rounds including a Series A of $17.5M (July 2025) led by European Innovation Council Fund and Invest-NL, and earlier grants from EIC Accelerator ($19.1M) - **Notable Investors**: European Innovation Council Fund, Invest-NL, PhotonVentures, Oost NL, FORWARD.one - **Growth Signals**: - More than 15 photonic quantum systems deployed in the field worldwide - First company to sell a universal photonic quantum computer in Europe (first customer: German Aerospace Center DLR) - Headcount growth of 50% year-over-year (70 employees as of mid-2026) - Recent milestones: demonstrated below-threshold error mitigation (April 2026), introduced PACU control unit (June 2026), unveiled path to logical qubits (May 2026) - 9 patents filed (topics: microtechnology, microwave technology, photonics) ## Competitive Advantages - **Photonics platform**: Operates at room temperature using telecom-grade components – no cryogenics, lower total cost of ownership, easier to deploy and maintain than competing quantum platforms (e.g., superconducting, trapped-ion). - **Lowest-loss photonic chips**: Proprietary silicon nitride CMOS-compatible chips achieve the industry’s lowest optical loss, essential for scaling to useful quantum computers. - **Fastest clock speed**: Photonic quantum computing clock speeds of 100 MHz to 1 GHz, compared to <10 MHz for other platforms. - **Error resilience**: Photonic systems are inherently more noise-resistant and allow more efficient error correction, reducing hardware overhead. - **Drop-in ready**: Designed for standard data center and HPC environments, overcoming the “lab-only” barrier of other quantum hardware. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling from special-purpose to universal photonic quantum computing, with a real-world roadmap to logical qubits. - Deepening partnerships with HPC and data center operators across Europe and beyond. - Continuing to drive down optical loss and improve component integration through a fabless manufacturing model. - Expanding commercial traction beyond early adopters (e.g., DLR, University of Twente) into financial services, defense, and AI workloads. ## Why Work Here - **Cutting-edge technology**: Work at the forefront of photonic quantum computing, a platform with strong commercial and scientific momentum. - **Growth environment**: Rapidly scaling company (50% headcount growth in the past year) with clear product milestones and a live customer base. - **International presence**: Four offices across the Netherlands and Germany (Enschede, Amsterdam, Ulm, Stuttgart) – likely offering hybrid or remote flexibility (not explicitly stated, but typical for tech scale-ups). - **Hands-on impact**: Small team (70 people) means engineers and scientists can directly influence architecture and product direction. - **Culture**: Focus on engineering excellence, field-upgradable modular systems, and a “fabless” approach that leverages external manufacturing partners for flexibility. - **Talent development**: Active internship/master’s project opportunities (e.g., quantum light sources) and a growing team with open positions in quantum hardware, software, and photonics. ## Sources 1. [quixquantum.com](https://www.quixquantum.com/about) 2. [quixquantum.com](https://www.quixquantum.com/) 3. [linkedin.com](https://nl.linkedin.com/company/quix-quantum) 4. 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