Research Software Engineering Intern (f/m/d)

Description QuantumDiamonds is building the world’s first commercial quantum sensing tools for chip failure analysis. As our Research Software Engineering Intern in Pre-Development, you bring our measurement software together.

A measurement protocol is the recipe our Quantum Diamond Microscope (QDm) follows for one measurement: how laser, microwaves and camera are sequenced and timed, and how raw camera frames become a magnetic field image of a chip.

Our engineers write new protocols whenever they test a new idea, and several backends for running them grew in parallel. You turn them into one shared Python framework that our engineers extend.

The challenge is a framework R&D still uses long after your internship: flexible enough that a new protocol is a day’s work, automated enough that a measurement runs without someone watching it, and structured enough that the next engineer extends it without reading all of it.

An experienced colleague from the team mentors you and sets the architecture; you make that trade-off real in code, working with Claude Code every day, as our engineers do. This is a full-time internship for 6 months, during or after your studies, starting as soon as possible.

Who we are Founded in 2022 as a spin-off of TU Munich, QD leverages quantum sensors to rapidly capture three-dimensional current maps within multi-layer chips.

Our strong, international team of over 70, including physicists, engineers, data scientists, and other experts, works side by side with major semiconductor manufacturers, supporting chip debugging and accelerating yield analysis.

Backed by top-tier deep tech investors, semiconductor experts, and strategic public programs, we have ensured long-term stability, shifting from breakthrough to scale - and shaping the next chapter in chip testing. Why join QuantumDiamonds?

Picture this: Quantum sensors that see inside the most advanced chips on Earth, right where two frontier fields collide. Nobel-Prize physics aimed at real customer