项目介绍

2026年1月22日

We are developing technology to robotically manufacture robust optical circuits for quantum technology and beyond. We provided the circuit boards for the AQuRA optical lattice clock and are offering such boards through our spin-off OpticsFoundry. Join us to push this technology to the next level in a collaboration with the Nonlinear Nanophotonics group of UTwente. You will expand our robotic manufacturing capabilities, allowing us to manufacture more versatile optical systems, including lasers, cavities, frequency references and more. If successful, you will be able to join OpticsFoundry and bring your achievements to the market.

A good salary

Your salary will be determined on the basis of your experience and seniority, in accordance with the Labour agreement. Your grading and therefore the amounts mentioned are based on full employment of 38 hours per week. Read more

232 vacation hours

We also offer parental leave, partner leave and social engagement leave. Through the Employment Conditions Menu Card, there are opportunities for even more vacation hours.Read more

Financial arrangements

On top of your salary, you receive holiday allowance (8%) and a year-end bonus (8.3%). You build up a good pension with ABP. And in addition, we offer many other allowances and schemes.Read more

Career development and room for growth

The UvA encourages you to continue to professionalise through training courses and open UvA lectures.Read more

Family matters

Relocating to the Netherlands with your family? Find out about daycare, schooling, health insurance or employment options and support for your partner or spouse. Including the IDCN-network which provides support for your spouse through various training sessions, social activities, and networking events. Read more

A good salary

Your salary will be determined on the basis of your experience and seniority, in accordance with the Labour agreement. Your grading and therefore the amounts mentioned are based on full employment of 38 hours per week. Read more

232 vacation hours

We also offer parental leave, partner leave and social engagement leave. Through the Employment Conditions Menu Card, there are opportunities for even more vacation hours.Read more

Financial arrangements

On top of your salary, you receive holiday allowance (8%) and a year-end bonus (8.3%). You build up a good pension with ABP. And in addition, we offer many other allowances and schemes.Read more

Career development and room for growth

The UvA encourages you to continue to professionalise through training courses and open UvA lectures.Read more

Family matters

Relocating to the Netherlands with your family? Find out about daycare, schooling, health insurance or employment options and support for your partner or spouse. Including the IDCN-network which provides support for your spouse through various training sessions, social activities, and networking events. Read more

A good salary

Your salary will be determined on the basis of your experience and seniority, in accordance with the Labour agreement. Your grading and therefore the amounts mentioned are based on full employment of 38 hours per week. Read more

232 vacation hours

We also offer parental leave, partner leave and social engagement leave. Through the Employment Conditions Menu Card, there are opportunities for even more vacation hours.Read more

Financial arrangements

On top of your salary, you receive holiday allowance (8%) and a year-end bonus (8.3%). You build up a good pension with ABP. And in addition, we offer many other allowances and schemes.Read more

Career development and room for growth

The UvA encourages you to continue to professionalise through training courses and open UvA lectures.Read more

Family matters

Relocating to the Netherlands with your family? Find out about daycare, schooling, health insurance or employment options and support for your partner or spouse. Including the IDCN-network which provides support for your spouse through various training sessions, social activities, and networking events. Read more

All about this vacancy

What you will do

You will join a fast paced, tightly aligned team building, testing, and iterating cutting edge technology in a startup style environment. You will be expected to operate as an end-to-end problem solver, taking ownership of problems and driving them forward independently, while staying closely connected with the team. You will draw on both your own expertise and that of the team to rapidly identify problems, propose solutions, and prototype, test, and validate new ideas that expand our core technical capabilities. Your work will include designing and building robust optical circuits incorporating new types of elements. These include gain media, active positioning elements such as piezos and stepper motors, cavities, spectroscopy cells, photonic integrated circuits, and more. You will also develop robotic manufacturing techniques to place, align, and integrate these new components into scalable production workflows. You will build and benchmark real, usable optical systems such as laser lock circuits and laser sources, iterating quickly based on experimental results and feedback. In parallel, you will contribute to prototyping, validating, and debugging production processes, and work with users to ensure our solutions are practical, reliable, and genuinely delightful to use. If things go well, you will have the opportunity to join OpticsFoundry, ship advanced optical circuits to customers, and grow with the company as part of the core technical team.

What we ask of you

We are looking for someone who is excited about growing a small startup into a successful company and who loves to creatively solve technical puzzles. You also should have:

• a recent PhD in experimental atomic, molecular and optical physics;
• good skills with optics, and some experience with electronics and control software;
• great team working and learning skills, enabling rapid adaptation to evolving project needs;
• initiative and good time management skills;
• good communication skills in oral and written English.

What we offer you

We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of 12 months. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible. The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,546 to € 5,538 (scale 10). This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile Researcher is applicable. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.