EU Project Manager, PASQAL
Programmable quantum simulators
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Programmable quantum simulators
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To shape the technological landscape of the 21st century.
Role
Who you are
- Master in Project Management or Business Administration, in European Affairs, in European Political Economy or in Engineering combined with Project Management
- 5 years in EU project management and delivery
- Proven EU project management and coordination
- Demonstrated delivery and monitoring of large EU projects
- Effective Internal and external stakeholder management
- Proven knowledge of EU contractual and financial procedures
- Proven knowledge of EU grant life management cycle
- Demonstrated experience in project exploitation
- Demonstrated project communication and event management
- Proven experience in designing business models and project financial viability
- Technology awareness in the fields of quantum technology and/or semiconductors will be an advantage
- Industrial economics will be an advantage
- Knowledge of EU public procurement will be an asset
- High ethical standards and integrity
- Able to adapt, work autonomously and creatively
- Team player
- Eager to learn
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Solution orientated mind-set
- Negotiation
- Sharp organization skills
- Attention to detail
- Fluent in English. Fluent in French preferred but not mandatory. Fluent in another EU language will be an asset
What the job involves
- Participate in the rapid development of a deep-tech start-up at the forefront of the second quantum revolution!
- Pasqal is the European Coordinator of one (Q-PLANET) of the six European Quantum Pilot Lines launched in the framework of the European Quantum Strategy. In this context, Pasqal is hiring an experienced Project Manager Officer to support Pasqal’s Coordinator into the daily management and delivery of Q-PLANET
- Q-Planet is a six-year EU very large grant project involving 30 EU partners (industry and RTOs) from 11 Member States. This pilot line aims at the sustainable development of chips and enabling technologies to foster the resilience of the EU supply chain in critical quantum technologies
- In this context, the main missions will be :
- Oversee daily project management activities including the administrative, operational, organizational, and financial activities under the supervision of Q-Planet Coordinator
- Monitor every step of the project to ensure its successful execution notably via the set-up of internal progress activity reviews, conducting quality-control activities, draft project progress reports and propose adjustments as needed
- Conduct high-level profile campaigns, events and outreach activities to position Q-Planet across the European Union and beyond
- Lead on the management, delivery and reporting activities of the work package on sustainability and exploitation activities of Q-PLANET
- Ensure an effective set-up and the operations of Q-PLANET’s overall governance structure including for external committees and boards (e.g. Advisory Board and Expert Board)
- Maintain effective communication and tight working relations with internal and external project partners, external consultants including by assisting in conflict resolution activities as needed
- Set-up an internal process management to foster a knowledge management, information sharing and performance driven culture for Q-PLANET
- Prepare a mid-term review and final project assessment based on stakeholder and partners’ feedbacks and provide areas for improvements
- Assist on any other Q-Planet activities that might arise during the project
Application process
- An interview with our talent acquisition of 30'
- An exchange with Alexandra, Hiring Manager
- A meeting with the team in our beautiful offices
- An offer!
Our take
Classical computing, using bits made up of ones and zeros, has almost reached the physical limits of its capabilities, with engineers running out of ways to fit more transistors onto a computer chip. Meanwhile, the processing demands on computing hardware only increase. Quantum computers have long been posited as a solution to this issue, with processors able to exploit quantum mechanics to perform calculations exponentially faster than any classical computer. Founded by a Nobel Prize for Physics recipient, Pasqal exists to bring quantum computing out of the realm of scientific research (and science fiction) and into the business world for the first time.
Pasqal is not alone in the race to produce quantum computers, and it faces competition from well-funded rivals such as IonQ and IBM. However, it is pursuing a different technological line - neural atom computing, which can manipulate individual atoms with laser tweezers. This has the advantage of being more scalable and energy efficient, and can run at room temperature rather than requiring supercooling.
In 2025, Pasqal closed an equity funding round from LG Electronics, a partnership which will see the companies work together to solve multiphysics simulation and optimisation challenges for LG. Having successfully built proof of concept models and overcome the technical challenges of manipulating a few and then hundreds of atoms, Pasqal is building a bespoke control system and beginning to implement quantum algorithms. Pasqal was also awarded one of five grants from the French Ministry of Defence in 2024, as part of a government plan to create 2 universal quantum computer systems for defence purposes by 2032. This new development indicates Pasqal's expansion from solely business purposes into new sectors where its technology can be impactful.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2023
$116.4m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$29.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $148.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible schedules to support work/life balance
- A dynamic, close-knit international team of co-workers
- An impactful role in a growing scale-up that is leading in the Neutral Atom Quantum Computing space
- An inclusive, supportive work environment that encourages career growth
- Competitive benefit packages
- Regular outings to support team work
- Lots of time off to enjoy the things you love outside of work
- Free time to learn and attend conferences/meetups
- Publishing and research encouraged with bonuses for new patents rewarded
- Employment Terms : Full time, Direct hire, Hybrid
Company HQ
Palaiseau, France
Leadership
Georges-Olivier Reymond
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategic Alliances Officer)Was previously R&D Manager at UnitySC and Project Manager with Safran.
Thierry Lahaye
(Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor)Before co-foudning PASQAL was a Researcher at CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Alain Aspect
(Co-Founder)French physicist who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics for experiments with quantum entanglement.
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