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Senior Digital System Designer

psiquantum · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

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About psiquantum

PsiQuantum is on a mission to build the first commercially useful quantum computer to solve humanity. Backed by Founders Fund and Redpoint.

About the role

We are looking for a digital-hardware system-designer to join our System-Architecture team. You will work in a multi-technology environment and will contribute to shaping and defining the digital-logic systems which drive our photonic quantum computer.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline
  • 5+ years of relevant work in digital design
  • Knowledge of SystemVerilog (or VHDL) for design and simulation
  • Experience working with FPGAs (Xilinx preferred) and associated tooling
  • Strong critical thinking skills to devise creative and analytical approaches to solving novel, loosely-defined complex problems
  • Team player with an ability to work effectively across departments and time-zones
More about this role

PsiQuantum’s mission is to build the first useful quantum computers—machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised. Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.

Quantum computers harness the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that even the most advanced supercomputers or AI systems will never reach. Their impact will span energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials, and other foundational industries.

Our architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics. By leveraging the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry—including partners like GlobalFoundries—we use the same high-volume processes that already produce billions of chips for telecom and consumer electronics. Photonics offers natural advantages for scale: photons don’t feel heat, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and integrate with existing cryogenic cooling and standard fiber-optic infrastructure.

In 2024, PsiQuantum announced government-funded projects to support the build-out of our first utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago,...

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