Team Lead, Electromagnetic Design Tools And Infrastructure

Team Lead, Electromagnetic Design Tools and Infrastructure at Nord Quantique, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. A lead-level full time position in the Design team, listed under hardware engineering.Our current needs

As Nord Quantique scales its quantum processor development activities, the EM Design team requires robust, reproducible, and scalable simulation infrastructure to support faster design cycles, stronger loss-budget rigor, and more efficient use of computational resources. We are seeking a Team Lead, EM Design Tools and Infrastructure to define and drive the technical direction of internal electromagnetic simulation infrastructure. This role combines technical leadership, hands-on scientific software development, computational EM expertise, and cross-functional coordination. The selected candidate will lead the development of internal modeling tools, automation workflows, solver strategies, validation practices, and reproducible simulation pipelines used across the EM Design team.

Enable fast, scalable, and cost-efficient EM simulation across the EM Design team by developing and maintaining robust modeling tools, automation workflows, and solver strategies that support roadmap-driven design and loss-budget rigor. Working in close collaboration with experts at Nord Quantique, the chosen candidate will:

• Own the EM simulation infrastructure roadmap and long-term solver strategy across the EM Design team.
• Lead internal tool development for model generation, simulation automation, solver orchestration, data extraction, and post-processing.
• Set software engineering standards for architecture, testing, documentation, releases, code review, and maintainability.
• Ensure simulation workflows are robust through reproducibility, traceability, versioning, validation, and design-documentation alignment.
• Drive solver benchmarking and scalability planning, including accuracy, convergence, licensing, HPC usage, queue times, and compute cost.

• PhD, Master’s degree, or equivalent industry experience in physics, electrical engineering, computational electromagnetics, scientific computing, software engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in computational EM, scientific software development, RF/microwave simulation, superconducting circuits, cQED, or quantum hardware design.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects, internal tool development, simulation infrastructure, or scientific software initiatives.
• Strong programming experience, preferably in Python, with a proven ability to develop maintainable, scalable, and well-documented engineering software.
• Experience with EM simulation tools such as Ansys HFSS, COMSOL, PALACE, Sonnet, CST, or similar.
• Experience mentoring technical contributors, coordinating roadmaps, and aligning stakeholders around shared engineering priorities.
• Senior technical contributor with strong leadership instincts and the ability to balance strategy with hands-on implementation.
• Comfortable defining a technical roadmap while also contributing directly to code, architecture, and validation work.
• Pragmatic and solution-oriented with a strong ability to prioritize high-impact work in a fast-moving R&D environment.
• Able to bridge physics, computational EM, software engineering, and hardware-design constraints across multiple stakeholders.