Senior Test Automation Engineer, PsiQuantum
Photonics
$180-200k
Office located in Milpitas, CA
Quantum computer builder
Open for applications
Quantum computer builder
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$180-200k
Office located in Milpitas, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build and deploy useful, fault tolerant quantum computers.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or physical science with 6+ years of industry experience
- Experience in the design and testing of high-speed electro-optical sub-systems such as line cards used in telecommunications equipment or similar
- Able to drive the sourcing and testing of test equipment, optical assemblies, and electronics
- Proficiency in Python, including the principles of object-oriented programming, for automating data collection and data analysis
- Experience developing test methods such as tuning/calibration algorithms
- Experience with interfacing and automating optical hardware test equipment, including power meters, optical backscatter reflectometers (OBR), optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), oscilloscopes, function generators (AWG), and vector network analyzers (VNA)
- Technical project management experience preferred
- Experience with manufacturing execution system (MES) and SQL is preferred
What the job involves
- The test automation engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing the software, methods and test infrastructure required by standard test flows for various electrical, optical and electro-optical subsystems
- Leading a complex, high speed electro-optical test station project which includes definition of requirements, equipment sourcing, station assembly, and testing and validation of the finished system
- Review of sub-system designs including integration of optics, electronics, firmware, software and thermal design
- Designing and building laboratory setups comprised of light sources, detectors, switches function generators, oscilloscopes, etc
- Developing SW scripts to automatically drive the measurements setups and feed data into a database
- Developing SW and algorithms to perform data analysis and extract key performance parameters
- Developing test plans, standard tests procedures and automated test flows
- Transferring test procedures and instructions to lab operators
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 and Google, 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 recently securing $1B in funding, making it the largest funding round for a quantum computing startup.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jun 2024
$125m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Financial & Retirement: 401(k) with company match, equity grants, and access to financial wellness tools and planning resources.
- Health: Competitive health coverage for you and your dependents that go beyond your standard medical, dental & vision.
- Wellness: $200 quarterly health reimbursement, 12 therapy + 6 coaching sessions with Modern Health for you and depndents, and annual membership to Care.com.
- Time Off: Discretionary Time Off (DTO) for full-time employees in addition to federal holidays and an end-of-year company shut-down.
- Family Leave: 12 weeks of paid parental leave with the support of a dedicated leave consultant.
- Flexible WOrk: Work in office, hybrid, or remote depending on your team and location.
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Jeremy O'Brien
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to founding PsiQuantum, researched and taught at universities across the world, including Bristol, Stanford, Osaka, Sydney and Queensland.
Mark Thompson
(Co-Founder & 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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