ICFO is offering a Project Engineer position to a well-qualified, highly motivated and dynamic young scientist who wishes to enhance his/her scientific career in a friendly and stimulating environment.

The successful candidate will be joining the Optoelectronics group led by Prof. Dr. Valerio Pruneri.

The group has experience in the study and development of new advanced materials, devices and systems for information and communication technologies, in particular displays, image sensors and secure communications. The main drive of the group is to carry out applied research which bridges academia and industry, by developing fundamental ideas with great potential for revolutionizing future photonic products.

The candidate will be involved in the development and testing and qualification of setups to be used in space-based quantum communication applications. Communication protocols such as quantum key distribution (QKD) represent a promising solution for ensuring future communication security, and satellite-based approaches are currently the only option to avoid detrimental exponential loss scaling in fibre-based networks. The candidate will participate in the prototyping cycle of microsatellite payload sub-systems, to be applied in QKD use cases. These use cases will also be demonstrated over existing optical link test-bed infrstructure in the Barcelona metropolitan area.