As part of the team you will have the following responsibilities:
- Define end‑to‑end quantum communication system architectures (e.g., QKD links, quantum repeater concepts, space‑to‑ground links).
- Translate mission, security, and performance requirements (SKR, QBER, link budget) into subsystem specifications.
- Support/lead design of quantum optical hardware (sources, detectors, time-tagging, synchronization, stabilization).
- Oversee breadboarding, prototyping, and design-for-test/assembly (DFT/DFA).
- Plan and execute integration, verification, and validation (IV&V) activities for lab, field, and over‑the‑air trials (terrestrial fiber/free-space and space segments).
- Develop test plans, procedures, and automated test scripts; analyze results and generate test reports.
- Perform optical link budgets, channel modeling (attenuation, turbulence, background noise), alignment and pointing, timing/synchronization.
- Interface with classical communication layers (key management, control plane) and security infrastructure.
- Ensure compliance with safety, EMC, environmental, and, where applicable, space qualification standards (e.g., vibration, thermal vacuum, radiation).
- Contribute to FMEAs, fault trees, design reviews, and configuration management.
- Advise internal teams and customers on technology trade‑offs, roadmaps, and risks.
- Prepare design documents, ICDs, test reports, and operations manuals; present findings to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.