Team Leader, Advanced Packaging

At IQM, we build world-leading quantum computers for the well-being of humankind. We design systems to tackle computational challenges beyond the practical limits of classical machines. Our work sits at the edge of science and engineering. It's complex, demanding, and deeply collaborative. We turn deep research into reliable, full-stack systems that drive discoveries in fields like medicine, energy, and technology, reshaping how the world computes. Join the team that gives quantum a heartbeat. The work As Team Leader, Advanced Packaging, you'll lead the team developing backend fabrication processes and advanced packaging technologies for next-generation QPUs. You own the interface between early-stage research, proof of concept, process engineering, and production: your job is to turn promising concepts into well-understood, reproducible, manufacturable processes that transfer cleanly into production. You'll join QPU Development Engineering in Espoo, reporting to the Team Leader, QPU Development Engineering, and build up a new, dedicated backend and advanced packaging team. Day to day you'll work with Process Engineering, Equipment, Micro-packaging, Design, System Engineering, Measurement, Reliability, and Quality, alongside our research groups and the cleanroom and facilities teams. This is leadership on two fronts at once: coaching experienced engineers, and setting technical direction, priorities, and cleanroom capacity calls. In your first six months, you'll have the team's development plan, milestones, and process-readiness criteria in place, and visible progress on the backend roadmap for the next generation's QPU packaging. What you’ll actually do Lead, coach, and develop the engineers working on backend fabrication, advanced packaging, and process integration Set development priorities and allocate resources against QPU roadmaps, project needs, technical risk, and available cleanroom capacity Drive technology maturation from research and proof of concept into robust, transferable fabrication processes Define development plans, technical milestones, success criteria, and process-readiness expectations Guide hypothesis-driven experiments, review results and technical conclusions with the team, and decide the next iteration Keep development work data-based, traceable, and tied to QPU and product requirements: device performance, yield, reliability, scalability Judge when a process is mature enough to hand to Process Engineering or Production, and make sure the transfer carries specifications, control plans, metrology methods, known limitations, and training Identify and manage technical risks, process dependencies, blockers, and capability gaps before they stall the roadmap Work across Research, QPU Development, Process Engineering, Equipment, Measurement, System Engineering, Reliability, Quality, and Production to keep backend development aligned Keep progress, priorities, risks, resource needs, and…