Optical & Quantum Communication System Engineer [26027]

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/synchronizati...