Senior Software Engineer – Fabrication Data Mining & Analysis Tools (m/f/d)

Your mission Your profile Why us? The future of AI computing is light, not electrons. At Q.ANT, we are building photonic processing systems that compute with light—delivering a scalable, energy-efficient alternative to transistor-based architectures for next-generation AI and high-performance computing. As a Senior Software Engineer – Fabrication Data Mining & Analysis (m/f/d), you will play a key role in transforming complex fabrication data into a living, scalable, and user-friendly data platform. Your work will directly support our photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) manufacturing teams by enabling deeper insights into process parameters, material behavior, and device performance across the full value chain—from wafer to NPU. Your Impact & Responsibilities - Drive the further development of Q.ANT’s in-house fabrication database into a robust, production-ready platform - Design, build, and maintain an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) tailored to user needs across multiple teams - Develop data mining and analysis tools to identify correlations between fabrication process parameters and physical device behavior - Enable automated traceability of process steps, results, and deviations across the full manufacturing value chain - Act as the primary interface for database-related topics, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement - Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders (manufacturing, physics, engineering, and data teams) - Translate complex technical concepts into clear, understandable insights for non-expert users What makes this role unique - High degree of ownership and freedom: You will independently shape the architecture, workflows, and solutions for our in-house fabrication database and also support the connection between database and ERP-system. - Creative problem-solving: You will design tailored data mining and analysis approaches for diverse, real-world fabrication use cases. - Cross-functional impact: Your solutions will be used by engineers from different disciplines, making your work highly visible and business-critical. - End-to-end perspective: You will enable traceability of successes and failures across the entire manufacturing process, contributing directly to product quality and scalability. About us Who we are and what we do Q.ANT is a deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processing solutions that compute natively with light and deliver a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems. The analog co-processors are optimised for complex computations and enable energy-efficient performance for next-generation AI and HPC applications. In collaboration with the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart IMS CHIPS, Q.ANT operates its own pilot line for photonic chips, based on the material system Thin-Film Lithium Niobate TFLN. Q.ANT was founded by Michael Förtsch in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.