Software Engineering Manager Director, PsiQuantum
$225-290k
+ Equity
Quantum computer builder
Job no longer available
Quantum computer builder
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$225-290k
+ Equity
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 degree in computer science or equivalent experience launching software products
- 10+ years of software development experience including 5+ years building and managing teams of 10+ software engineers (both frontend and backend software developers)
- Experience working with product and program management teams in delivering new SaaS enterprise applications to paying customers
- Proficiency with software development best practices including design, documenting, testing, and debugging, applied to software development lifecycle management
- Deep expertise in object-oriented programming in Python and data engineering in SQL for scalable, high-performance applications
- Proven experience with Design-Driven Development (DDD) methodologies and a strong understanding of user-centered design principles
- Knowledge and experience with AWS infrastructure and services including containerized architectures (Docker, ECS, EKS), database systems (RDS, Databricks, S3), serverless systems (API Gateway, Lambda)
- Strong experience in platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform on AWS
- Knowledge and experience with frontend development. Familiarity with Svelte Kit is a plus
- Experience with platform engineering to deliver hosted, managed IDEs to researchers and developers
- Experience creating products for developers and/or researchers is a big plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a well-rounded and hands-on Director of Software Engineering to provide strategic leadership and direction for PsiQuantum's Applications Systems Engineering
- As the leader of this team, you will oversee the development and deployment of our new quantum algorithm developer platform for both external and internal quantum computing developers
- You will be responsible for shaping the vision, strategy, and execution of our engineering roadmap, ensuring it effectively supports the team’s mission to find and deploy useful applications to run on our quantum hardware
- You will guide the growth of our young software team by establishing strong software development practices and culture, seeking out new talent, and mentoring both front end, backend, and platform engineers
- Given we are a small team, you will also need to be hands-on, deeply involved in technical design and capable of directly contributing to the development of our product
- Lead by example of strong work ethic, establishing strong software development and engineering practices and a high-quality bar for the software development and platform team, focused on team collaboration and user success
- Hire exceptional engineers to grow the team to support our ambitious quantum developer product strategy
- Drive architectural decisions, design documentation, and lead code reviews
- Coordinate deployment of software products into cloud-based production environments
- Oversee our agile development process in close coordination with the product team and software release coordinator program manager
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members in the development of the product as well as for personal career development; manage team member performance
- Align team objectives and work with company objectives, in close coordination with other engineering leaders and product leaders
- Define and champion the technical vision and strategy for application software, platform, and systems engineering
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2024
$125m
CONVERTIBLE
Apr 2024
$602.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
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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