Firmware QA Engineer, PsiQuantum
$105-165k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Quantum computer builder
Be an early applicant
Quantum computer builder
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$105-165k
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 7 years experience in quality assurance test and infrastructure roles
- Proven experience in QA automation and test engineering, particularly for embedded systems
- Advanced Python for control and test interfaces
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an aptitude for identifying root causes
- Familiarity with build systems, version control, and test driven development
- Has developed solutions for network controls using TCP/IP
- Results oriented
- Attention to detail
- Data driven in decision making
- Adaptability and flexibility in a fast paced development environment
What the job involves
- The mission of PsiQuantum's Firmware Quality Assurance Engineering role is to develop test validation frameworks for our quantum computing electronics control systems. This engineer will work closely with the firmware team and collaborate with hardware, systems design, control software, and validation teams
- Design and develop test automation infrastructure for regression testing, stress testing, and collecting runtime analytics of PsiQuantum’s electronics control systems
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for hardware in loop testing
- Develop automated test reports, bug tracking, and performance tracking
- Develop test equipment controls used for conducting runtime tests as well as data collection
- Create specialized tools that enable integration testing and validating that the system functions correctly under a range operational conditions
- Contribute to electronics controls software design and development
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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