Technical Project Manager

QuantWare

ABOUT US QuantWare is building the world’s most powerful quantum processors to solve humanity's greatest challenges. We do this with our unique VIO™ technology, the only QPU architecture that breaks the hardware barriers that have held quantum computing back, unlocking the path to MegaQubit quantum processors. With VIO, we are paving the way for the hyper-scale quantum computers that will change the world. And delivering on that vision demands people who don’t shy away from tackling the hardest challenges of our time. That’s where you come in! As the Device Metrology Tool Development Lead, you will coordinate technical work for the research and development project focused on developing scalable metrology methods and automated tooling for high-throughput screening of quantum devices. In this role, you will balance project management with technical execution, providing the overarching technical breadth required to guide the tool's lifecycle from concept to deployment. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: Drive Project Progress * Identify and manage the critical path of the project. * Prioritise and sequence tasks based on impact, resource availability, and technical dependencies. * Ensure the team moves forward in a focused, efficient, and aligned manner. Technical Oversight & Decision-Making * Synthesize inputs from various engineering and scientific domains to guide project direction and make key system-level trade-offs. * Leverage the deep technical expertise within the team to evaluate experimental strategies and validate outcomes. * Identify capability gaps within the project framework and help shape team growth or hiring strategies to meet milestones. Coordinate Team and Cross-Functional Efforts * Lead and support the technical project team day-to-day. * Work closely with experts across design, fabrication, and measurement disciplines to ensure a coherent and efficient R&D cycle. * Balance scientific rigor with pragmatic, milestone-driven progress. Anticipate and Manage Uncertainty * Identify technical risks, engineering bottlenecks, and resource constraints early. * Plan for potential failure modes and establish flexible contingencies. * Adapt project strategies dynamically as new data and technical insights emerge. External Stakeholder Management * Act as a primary technical interface and point of contact for external development partners and collaborators. YOUR PROFILE * Experience: 4+ years working as a project lead, systems engineer, technical program manager, or lead engineer in a deep-tech industry (e.g., quantum computing, semiconductor metrology tooling, aerospace, or complex hardware systems). * Education: Master’s degree or PhD in Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field. * Technical Breadth: Strong foundational understanding of the R&D lifecycle (design - produce - measure), with exposure to chip characterization, RF / microwave engineering, or cryogenic systems. You don't need to be the hands-on experimentalist, but you must speak their language. * Leadership Style: Comfortable taking initiative, navigating ambiguity, and making authoritative project decisions across cross-functional streams. * Mindset: A lucid thinker and strong communicator who is pragmatic and ruthlessly focused on delivering results over micropolishing features. Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We know great candidates don't always follow a straight path, and we value diverse experience, perspectives, and ways of thinking. If this role excites you and you believe you can make an impact, we'd love to hear from you! What We Offer: At QuantWare, you’ll be part of a high-performing team of world-class experts in an ambitious, fast-moving environment. From day one, you’ll have the trust, tools, and support to do your best work. Here’s what you can expect: Competitive salary - A salary that reflects the impact and importance of the role (and of course 8% holiday allowance) Pension that’s built to last - A generous and future-proof pension plan that includes partner and dependent coverage. Flexibility built on trust - We focus on outcomes. Work flexibly, in a hybrid setup, with an open vacation policy that lets you manage your time Personal growth - We invest in your L&D, with a budget available to each team member, dependent on their individual ambitions, development needs, and performance A connected team - We make space to celebrate wins together, with team events, offsites, and spontaneous moments that bring us closer Diversity & Inclusion at QuantWare We’re an ambitious company, not only for our goals but also to become an even more diverse and inclusive team. We know this helps us with better decisions, more innovation, and strengthens our culture. In particular, we’d love to see more women in the quantum industry! So if you’re a female talent, excited about this opportunity but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. As part of our recruitment process, candidates may be required to undergo pre-employment screening.

QuantWare

ABOUT US QuantWare is building the world’s most powerful quantum processors to solve humanity's greatest challenges. We do this with our unique VIO™ technology, the only QPU architecture that breaks the hardware barriers that have held quantum computing back, unlocking the path to MegaQubit quantum processors. With VIO, we are paving the way for the hyper-scale quantum computers that will change the world. And delivering on that vision demands people who don’t shy away from tackling the hardest challenges of our time. That’s where you come in! QuantWare is building a next-generation 200 mm (8-inch) quantum device fabrication facility ("Kilofab") and assembly facility to enable industrial-scale manufacturing of superconducting quantum processors. We are seeking a Fab Automation & Manufacturing Systems Manager to establish and lead the factory automation and manufacturing systems function. This role defines how manufacturing equipment, metrology systems, test platforms, and factory software systems are integrated to support efficient, traceable, and data-driven manufacturing operations. The role combines technical leadership, project execution, vendor management, and team development. What you'll be doing Fab Automation & Manufacturing Systems * Define and maintain the fab automation roadmap. * Develop the overall architecture for equipment connectivity and manufacturing data collection. * Ensure manufacturing systems support traceability, production control, process monitoring, and operational reporting. * Work closely with Process Engineering, Manufacturing, Facilities, IT, and Equipment Engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of automation solutions. Equipment Integration * Lead integration of process, metrology, and test equipment into the manufacturing environment. * Define equipment automation requirements during tool selection and procurement. * Establish and maintain equipment communication standards using SECS/GEM, and vendor-specific interfaces/APIs. * Ensure collection of equipment status, process data, alarms, events, and metrology/test results. Manufacturing Execution System (MES) * Support the selection, implementation, and operation of the MES platform. * Define MES workflows and business requirements. * Ensure integration between MES and manufacturing equipment. * Support implementation of lot tracking, genealogy, recipe management, dispatching, and production reporting. * Act as the primary business owner for MES within the fab. Manufacturing Data & Analytics * Define requirements for manufacturing data collection and storage (equipment, process, sensor, metrology, probe/test). * Support implementation of manufacturing databases, historians, and cloud-based data solutions with appropriate security and governance. * Work with internal teams and external partners to establish reporting and analytics capabilities. * Enable visibility into key manufacturing metrics (yield, throughput, cycle time, equipment utilization, production performance). Process Monitoring & Factory Control * Support implementation of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Fault Detection & Classification (FDC) capabilities. * Collaborate with process engineering teams to improve process monitoring and excursion management. * Ensure manufacturing data availability to support yield improvement and continuous improvement initiatives. Team & Vendor Management * Build and lead the fab automation and manufacturing systems team. * Recruit and manage key resources (Automation Engineers, MES Application Specialists, Manufacturing Systems Engineers). * Manage relationships with software suppliers, equipment vendors, and system integration partners. * Coordinate automation-related projects from specification through deployment and commissioning. Your Profile Must Have * BSc/MSc/PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Automation, Semiconductor Manufacturing, or related field. * 7+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing automation, equipment integration, or manufacturing systems. * Experience working with semiconductor equipment integration and automation. * Practical knowledge of SECS/GEM communication standards. * Experience with MES systems in a manufacturing environment (implementation support or operations). * Understanding of manufacturing data flows, traceability, and production control. * Experience managing technical projects involving multiple stakeholders and vendors. * Strong communication and leadership skills. * Experience in greenfield facility build or major fab expansion. * Experience building and leading small technical teams. Good to Have * Experience supporting MES implementation projects end-to-end. * Experience with SPC and/or FDC systems. * Experience integrating semiconductor metrology and test/probe equipment. * Familiarity with cloud-based manufacturing data platforms and basic ETL concepts. * Experience in quantum, superconducting, photonics, MEMS, or other advanced technology manufacturing. Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We know great candidates don't always follow a straight path, and we value diverse experience, perspectives, and ways of thinking. If this role excites you and you believe you can make an impact, we'd love to hear from you! What We Offer: At QuantWare, you’ll be part of a high-performing team of world-class experts in an ambitious, fast-moving environment. From day one, you’ll have the trust, tools, and support to do your best work. Here’s what you can expect: Competitive salary - A salary that reflects the impact and importance of the role (and of course 8% holiday allowance) Pension that’s built to last - A generous and future-proof pension plan that includes partner and dependent coverage. Flexibility built on trust - We focus on outcomes. Work flexibly, in a hybrid setup, with an open vacation policy that lets you manage your time Personal growth - We invest in your L&D, with a budget available to each team member, dependent on their individual ambitions, development needs, and performance A connected team - We make space to celebrate wins together, with team events, offsites, and spontaneous moments that bring us closer Diversity & Inclusion at QuantWare We’re an ambitious company, not only for our goals but also to become an even more diverse and inclusive team. We know this helps us with better decisions, more innovation, and strengthens our culture. In particular, we’d love to see more women in the quantum industry! So if you’re a female talent, excited about this opportunity but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. As part of our recruitment process, candidates may be required to undergo pre-employment screening.

Fiducial

OPENING WE CANNOT PROVIDE VISA SPONSORSHIP DETAILS Preferred starting date: ASAP Weekly availability: full-time on-site (5 days/week) Location: Delft, the Netherlands ABOUT THE COMPANY Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up with big ambitions at the frontier of autonomy, perception, and defence. Currently, we are developing software for advanced on-board UAV situational awareness in military applications. Using low-cost and widely available sensors and compute, our solutions are built for scalability. From there, we plan to develop a line-up of interconnected solutions to safeguard European safety. Our team consists of engineers that are passionate about the technology and solutions they develop. The only time most of us are not thinking about the technology is when we are asleep, and sometimes even then. Our team members have a background in different fields such as Aerospace Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, Robotics and Computer Graphics. Our office is located in the Aerospace Innovation Hub, a start-up hub located on the TU Delft campus in the faculty of Aerospace Engineering. We work closely with top-tier partners, ranging from government agencies and prime contractors to academic research institutes and other start-ups. Our projects span from large tender orders in collaboration with partners to low TRL research with government agencies. Whether through formal R&D programs or rapid prototyping tracks, we operate at the intersection of innovation and deployment. YOUR ROLE As our People Operations Lead, you will take ownership of our People Operations foundation and help us improve it as we scale: onboarding, contracts, employee records, HR workflows, hiring operations, manager support, and employee relations. You will report directly to the COO and work closely with leadership to make our people practices clearer, more consistent, and more scalable. This is a hands-on improvement and scaling role. We already have the basic foundations in place, but they need to become more reliable, structured, and easier to run as the company grows. In the short term, you will bring stronger consistency, follow-through, documentation, and ownership to day-to-day people operations. In the longer term, you will help shape how People Operations scales with the company. We are looking for someone with the ambition and judgment to grow with us, strengthen lightweight people systems, and eventually help design the People team we need for the next stage. Our base is in the Netherlands, but our team is increasingly distributed. You will help us improve practical, compliant people practices that work across the Netherlands and other European countries, coordinating with the right internal owners and external advisors where needed. We are an AI-first technical startup using tools such as Notion, Ashby, Slack, ChatGPT, and AI agents. You do not need to be technical, but you should be tech-savvy, structured, and curious about using modern tools to make People Operations faster, clearer, and less manual. This role is for someone who has worked in a startup or scale-up before, loves improving messy-but-functional systems, and wants to make people infrastructure more reliable without slowing the company down with unnecessary bureaucracy. Key responsibilities PEOPLE OPERATIONS FOUNDATION * Build and run core People Operations processes across the employee lifecycle. * Own workflows for contracts, onboarding, offboarding, employee records, HRIS/data hygiene, policies, and documentation. * Manage probation tracking and make sure managers hold timely review conversations. * Maintain and improve the employee handbook and core people documentation. * Work closely with Finance on payroll, employment cost tracking, and related approvals, coordinating with external advisors where needed. * Identify people risks early and escalate clearly to the COO and leadership team. HIRING, RECRUITMENT, AND DISTRIBUTED EMPLOYMENT * Support hiring managers with role setup, interview process, candidate communication, offer workflows, and hiring process discipline. * Work closely with technical recruiters on niche talent sourcing, candidate pipeline quality, hiring priorities, interview process, and offer coordination. * Support remote and international hiring, including employment, payroll, contract, relocation, and onboarding approaches for hires in other European countries. * Coordinate 30% ruling applications for eligible employees in the Netherlands with external advisors. * Ensure our people processes are grounded in Dutch employment practices while scalable enough for a distributed European team. PEOPLE SYSTEMS, TOOLING, AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT * Improve our trackers, templates, checklists, dashboards, and operating rhythms for people processes. * Turn ambiguous people operations problems into practical workflows with clear owners, timelines, and next steps. * Drive follow-through across managers, hiring teams, external advisors, and internal stakeholders. * Use tools such as Notion, Ashby, HRIS platform, Slack, ChatGPT, and AI agents to reduce manual work and improve visibility. * Gradually help build lightweight processes for performance reviews, salary reviews, role clarity, and future People function scaling. WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU We are looking for a pragmatic, hands-on, highly structured People generalist who can create order without creating bureaucracy. You are likely a strong fit if you have: * 5–10 years of HR generalist, People Operations, or HR operations experience in the Netherlands. * Experience in an international startup, scale-up, or fast-changing environment. * Experience supporting remote or distributed teams, with a strong ability to figure out employment practices in other European countries. * Strong knowledge of international hiring practices and the employee lifecycle: onboarding, contracts, HR administration, employee relations, performance support, and offboarding. * Excellent documentation, process-building, and follow-up discipline. * Strong project management instincts: you know how to create owners, timelines, trackers, and next steps. * A builder mindset: you like creating useful systems, not just maintaining existing ones. * The confidence to push back constructively and hold people to agreed processes. * Interest in growing with the company and eventually helping build a broader People team. Bonus points if you: * Have experience in a deeptech, high-tech, AI, robotics, aerospace, defence, hardware, or engineering-led startup. * Are tech-savvy and comfortable with tools such as Notion, Slack, HRIS platforms, Ashby, ChatGPT, and AI agents. * Have built lightweight workflows, templates, databases, dashboards, or automations. * Are curious about how AI can improve hiring, onboarding, HR documentation, manager support, and people operations. You should believe that good People Operations is not about adding bureaucracy. It is about creating clarity, fairness, consistency, and better management. We especially value people who can: * Keep processes lightweight and useful. * Balance empathy with accountability. * Push back constructively when needed. * Help first-time managers become better leaders. * Work independently without needing a fully established People structure. * Build people practices that work for both Dutch-based employees and distributed European team members. * Move between hands-on execution and longer-term people system design. WHAT WE OFFER * Money of course. * 25 vacation days per year. * Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop. * Flexible working hours. * A hands-on environment where your work will directly improve how the company operates. * A chance to build the People function from the ground up and grow with the company. * The opportunity to shape the future People team, not just operate existing processes. * A fast-moving, mission-driven technical startup environment. * A culture that values ownership, autonomy, direct communication, and practical problem-solving. THE APPLICATION PROCEDURE * If after reading the above you are convinced you are the right person for the job, send us some information about yourself; this can be a resume, website or other source, as long as we get a clear impression of your background and skills. * We’ll get back to you as soon as possible. If we see a potential fit, you’ll first receive a short follow-up questionnaire. Based on your answers, we’ll invite you for an interview. This interview is an opportunity to talk through a real problem/scenario and show us you think and communicate. * If at this point we feel you are the person we are looking for, we’ll discuss the specifics. * Welcome to the team!