Robert Jördens
Managing Director at M-Labs Limited
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Jördens is a managing director and embedded-systems software engineer with 14 years of experience leading teams and shipping low-level control systems from Berlin. He co-directs QUARTIQ and M-Labs, translating quantum lab requirements into production-grade hardware and software, and previously held a postdoc at NIST after doctoral work at ETH Zürich. His open-source contributions include significant work on ARTIQ (a leading control system for quantum experiments) and OpenOCD, where he added SPI flash and JTAG support and improved FPGA configuration and flash verification. Comfortable across Python, Rust, and FPGA toolchains, he routinely tackles signal-processing, low-level asm, and Cordic implementations for digital hardware. Colleagues value him for bridging research-grade experimental control and robust embedded tooling—often contributing subtle but critical low-level fixes that prevent failures in complex measurement setups. Based in Berlin, he combines academic rigor with entrepreneurial leadership in quantum and embedded systems.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Complutense de MadridETH Zürich
Github Skills (29)
algorithm10
algorithms10
jtag10
python10
signal-processing10
cortex-m10
c1110
microcontroller10
masm10
implement10
digital-signal-processing10
rust-no-std10
c1710
vhdl10
sys10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
m-labs/migen
Jun 2013 - Oct 2020
A Python toolbox for building complex digital hardware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:202 commits, 8 PRs, 78 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily involve the development of digital hardware components. They are actively working on implementing a generic Cordic (COordinate Rotation Digital Computer) algorithm, which is a core component in digital signal processing, with configurations for different evaluation and arithmetic modes. The user is also contributing to platform-specific implementations by adding and maintaining hardware platforms, for example, the addition of new FPGA platforms. Moreover, they are involved in incorporating features to support reslicing, non-unit step size, and other modifications to the existing code base.
asicpythonvhdltoolboxsynthesis
m-labs/artiq
May 2014 - Oct 2022
A leading-edge control system for quantum information experiments
Role in this project:Software Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Software Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:5 releases, 68 reviews, 1633 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert appears to be working on the development of the ARTIQ control system for quantum information experiments. Their contributions center on enhancements to the `scanwidget` module, improving the display of scan axes through font metric utilization, and adding new functionality. The user has also made changes to the `fastlink`, and has contributed to the underlying low-level details of the system and signal processing, including working on the communication interface between the FPGA and the CPU.
physicspythonsciencequantum-computingrust
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