Staff Firmware Engineer, PsiQuantum
$190-230k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Quantum computer builder
Be an early applicant
Quantum computer builder
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-230k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s first useful fault tolerant, error corrected quantum computer that will solve otherwise impossible problems.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Minimum of 10 years hand-on firmware development and architecture experience leading to a successful commercial product
- Experience architecting solutions for multiple products and/or sets of control boards
- Expert level firmware development in C/C++
- Intermediate or advanced Python for control and test interfaces
- Familiarity with build systems, version control, and test driven development
- Schematic review and hardware debugging tools and techniques
- RTOS, bare metal, and linux development experience
- Communications protocol development and TCP/IP protocol implementations
- Results oriented
- Attention to detail
- Data driven in decision making
- Strong problem solving skills
- Adaptability and flexibility in a fast paced development environment
- Ability to work cross functionally with hardware, design, manufacturing, and validation teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences ranging from senior leadership and technical experts to entry-level staff
What the job involves
- Our team is building a utility scale quantum computer and the software tools needed to build fault tolerant quantum applications
- We’re a highly motivated and collaborative group focused on a singular goal - building the world’s first useful quantum computer on the fastest path possible
- The mission of PsiQuantum's Principal Firmware Engineering role is to contribute to the development of robust and scalable firmware solutions which are integral to the underlying quantum computer system
- This engineer will collaborate with hardware, systems, control software, and validation teams
- Collaborate with the hardware and architecture teams to define systems architecture, design, and components selection
- Design and develop firmware for quantum computing controls systems
- Contribute technical leadership and expertise to the firmware team
Our take
Quantum computing will change the world more than any other imminent technological development, and PsiQuantum sits at the forefront of the charge to build the first quantum computer that will actually work.
The company is unique for the scale of their ambitions. Rather than focusing on what they term “intermediate milestones” like building smaller proof of concept systems, PsiQuantum builds the first large-scale, error-corrected computer, using photonics to deliver over 1,000,000 qubits (current quantum machines have yet to cross the 1,000 qubit mark).
There are plenty of companies building quantum computers, including the likes of IBM, Google and Honeywell, but these prototypical machines lack the size to correct errors, making them exponentially less useful than what PsiQuantum aims for. While other companies operate in the same sphere, PsiQuantum is unequivocally a leader in its field, founded by world-class academics and raising hundreds of millions in funding to reach unicorn status.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$125m
CONVERTIBLE
Apr 2024
$584.3m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Jeremy O'Brien
(CEO)Prior to founding PsiQuantum, researched and taught at universities across the world, including Bristol, Stanford, Osaka, Sydney and Queensland.
Mark Thompson
(Chief Technologist)Previously worked as an R&D Engineer at Toshiba and was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Is currently a Professor of Quantum Photonics at Bristol University as well as Chief Technologist at PsiQuantum.
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