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Senior Research Scientist – AMO Physics Quantum Computing
London based
Sponsorship available
About the opportunity
Metric is working with a well-funded quantum computing company building next-generation hardware for real-world enterprise deployment. The team has already shipped working systems to customers and is now moving into a new phase of platform development, with strong IP behind their approach and a clear path to commercial scale.
This is an experimental physics role centred on photon-photon gates realised through atom-mediated interactions. You'll be the one in the lab, trapping atoms, coupling them into optical cavities, and turning early-stage protocols into stable, repeatable demonstrators that can eventually sit inside a production system.
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Core responsibilities
- Build and run the experimental setup for trapping and delivering atomic ensembles into optical microcavities
- Get atom-cavity coupling, state prep, and cavity locking working reliably, not just once
- Push the nonlinear gate protocols from proof-of-concept toward genuinely strong photon-photon interactions
- Partner closely with the research team on system engineering for repeatability and platform fit
- Feed experimental results back into strategy, what's working, what's risky, where to focus next
- Publish, file patents, and represent the science internally and externally as needed
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- PhD-level physics background (or equivalent), grounded in AMO and quantum optics
- Real hands-on time running cold-atom experiments - laser cooling, MOTs, dipole traps, UHV
- Experience getting atoms and optical cavities to talk to each other, including locking and laser stabilisation
- Evidence you can carry an experiment from whiteboard to working hardware
Bonus points
- Work with dense, high-optical-depth atomic ensembles
- Fibre coupling or single-photon detection experience
- Built your own control/automation/DAQ tooling
- Taken something from lab bench toward a deployable product
- Any exposure to photonic quantum computing specifically
If this sounds like you...apply today.
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