In today's WirtschaftsWoche Andreas M. asks whether AI is eating its own engineers. I was quoted in the piece, and my answer is simple: not ours. The article paints a picture of an industry in flux. DeepL cutting 25% of staff, Cloudflare letting 1,100 people go, Meta announcing 8,000 layoffs. The common justification: AI makes humans redundant. And yes, AI is reshaping how we work at Peak Quantum too. Documentation, literature research, internal coordination, planning. All of that moves faster now, and that's a good thing, because it frees up time for the work that actually matters. But AI does not do hands-on cryogenic engineering to push dilution fridges to their limits, it does not come up with creative fabrication process steps that no textbook or paper has documented, and it does not develop the physical intuition you need when your qubit behaves in ways the model didn't predict. We build superconducting quantum processors, and that demands people who have spent years building that kind of judgment. No shortcuts - yet, at least. That is why we are hiring, not downsizing. We are currently looking for: ◾ Quantum Design Engineer ◾ Quantum Measurement Engineer ◾ R&D Fabrication Engineer If you want to work on problems so hard that no AI is coming for your job anytime soon, we should talk. Link to the WiWo article in the comments.
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Link to article: https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/digitale-welt/stellenstreichungen-frisst-die-ki-revolution-ihre-ingenieure/100224504.html