Team Lead Electronics

Join us and shape the quantum devices of tomorrow!

Job description

At QuTech, the Electronics team develops advanced electronic instrumentation and supports researchers with expert advice. We are now seeking for a Team Lead Electronics to drive this work forward and help shape the future of our labs.

In this role, you will lead a small team of three specialists. Leadership is an integral part of the position and is reflected across all aspects of the work, including technical design, team guidance, anticipating future needs, and initiating new concepts. You will be responsible for setting directions, ensuring quality, and fostering collaboration within the team while actively contributing the team’s growth..

Given the size and nature of the team, this is a hands-on technical leadership role. “Hands-on” means you are deeply involved in the design, realization, and support of measurement electronics, working closely with researchers and contributing directly to technical solutions rather than only steering from a distance.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who takes initiative and actively guides the team’s direction through both leadership and expertise.

Your daily responsibilities include:

• Delivering instrumentation- whether home-built, off-the-shelf or adapted for quantum technology research labs.
• Advising researchers on instrumentation and measurement issues. Identifying improvements beyond the initial request
• Initiating and driving short  and long term projects by translating research needs into electronics proposals and instruments.
• Creating roadmaps, definitions, and requirements for delivering electronics to the labs.
• Conducting independent research on electronics for quantum research.
• Staying informed about developments in the electronics market, related to quantum research.
• Coordinating the activities of team members within projects or assignments.
• Maintaining an extensive catalogue of previously developed electronics.
• Representing and promoting the team within the organization.
• Participating in organizational or technical working groups, committees, or project teams.
  
  

As team lead, you guide an autonomous engineering team through technical discussions, ensuring high‑quality results and building shared expertise. You coordinate long‑term development projects, serve as the main contact for management, and maintain regular communication with other engineering teams and university support groups.

This role also includes an educational component. You and your team teach and update an electronics course for our researchers, and you supervise HBO-level internship students.

Requirements

Our ideal candidate has a broad background in both analog and digital electronics. The role spans many technical domains, including low noise analog frontends, RF and microwave engineering, EMC and isolation, signal filtering, ADC/DACs, PCB and high frequency design. Familiarity with lab instrumentation is particularly valuable. You do not need to be an expert in every area, but you should feel confident navigating all of them.

You bring:

• A master’s degree in Electronics (or equivalent experience), or a degree in quantum related Physics with demonstrable electronics expertise.
• Leadership experience, managing small technical team.
• A practical, hands on, and analytical mindset, able to provide quick technical solutions.
• The ability to plan and reason about high level system architectures.
• The ability to translate research questions into electronics requirements and vice versa.
• A proactive, collaborative, and self starting attitude.
• Interest in cutting edge Physics; knowledge of quantum systems is an advantage.
• Genuine interest in your colleagues’ work and eagerness to share your own.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills; teaching experience is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English; Dutch proficiency is preferred, or willingness to learn it.

QuTech

At QuTech, we work on radically new technologies with world-changing potential. Our mission: to develop scalable prototypes of a quantum computer and a quantum internet by integrating world-class research and groundbreaking innovation. Through excellence, relevance, and leadership, we cultivate a vibrant quantum technology ecosystem. Together, we are creating the quantum future, because we believe that quantum technologies can be a game changer in many societal and economic sectors, including health, agriculture and safety.

Have a look at our video and get a glimpse of QuTech.

Conditions of employment 

• Duration of contract is 1 year Temporarily with a posibility for extension.
• A job of 38-40 hours per week. 
• A salary based on Scale 11 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €4925 - €6682 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.  
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP. 
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year. 
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages. 
• Flexible working week. 
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget. 
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses. 
• Partially paid parental leave.
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program. 

Will you need to relocate to the Netherlands for this job? TU Delft is committed to make your move as smooth as possible! The HR unit, Coming to Delft Service, offers information on their website to help you prepare your relocation. In addition, Coming to Delft Service organises events to help you settle in the Netherlands, and expand your (social) network in Delft. A Dual Career Programme is available, to support your accompanying partner with their job search in the Netherlands.  

Additional information

For more information about this position, you can contact Raymond Schouten, Quantum Engineer and Team Lead Electronics at r.n.schouten@tudelft.nl.
For questions concerning the procedure please contact Audrey Monje, Senior Talent Acquisition at QuTech at A.monje@tudelft.nl.
 

Application procedure
Are you interested in this vacancy? Please apply no later than 20 September 2026 via the application button and upload the following documents:

• CV
• Motivational letter

You can address your application to Raymond Schouten.

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