Senior Mechanical Engineer (Reliability)

Join our team as a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Reliability Engineering team. You will be responsible for keeping our quantum computers running at their best, boosting fleet uptime and cutting operating costs.

You are proactive and self-directed, happy to ask for input, and comfortable working on systems where uptime matters while collaborating across disciplines

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with electrical, optical, and science colleagues, updating mechanical designs and managing configuration.
• Your focus will be on the live fleet, where you will root-cause mechanical, vacuum, cryogenic, and thermal faults, prioritize issues by their impact on uptime, and analyze failed parts to track recurring failure modes.
• You will also design, prototype, and test solutions to recurring challenges, implement mechanical changes, and write assembly and upgrade instructions.
• Root-cause mechanical, vacuum, cryogenic and thermal faults on live systems, prioritising issues by impact on uptime.
• Design, prototype and test solutions to recurring challenges, and implement mechanical changes that enable electrical and optical improvements.
• Write assembly and upgrade instructions to bring new designs into existing fleets, and work with our operations team to implement upgrades in live systems.

Requirements

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, along with 4+ years of relevant industry experience, is required.
• You will be a mechanical engineer with a strong design background and 4+ years of relevant industry experience. A degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (including apprenticeship routes), is expected
• Quantum experience is not required. We will teach you the rest, and if you meet most of this posting and the work excites you, we encourage you to apply
• If you meet most of this posting and the work excites you, we encourage you to apply!
• Experience with cryogenic, vacuum, or optomechanical systems
• Structured root cause and failure analysis (e.g. 5 Whys, failure mode and effects analysis)
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs across disciplines

Preferred

• Established CAD ability, ideally SolidWorks, plus geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and PLM experience