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
The Staff Firmware Engineer is a hands-on technical leader and firmware developer on PsiQuantum’s Firmware team, within the Electronics organization. The role leads firmware architecture and development for quantum computing control systems, working closely with hardware, systems architecture, and software teams. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Minimum of 10 years hand-on firmware development and architecture experience leading to a successful commercial product
- Experience architecting solutions for multiple products and/or sets of control boards
- Expert level firmware development in C/C++
- Intermediate or advanced Python for control and test interfaces
- Familiarity with build systems, version control, and test driven development
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.
That approach has since been tested at the highest level of scrutiny the U.S. government applies to emerging technology, and it has held up. In 2025, PsiQuantum...
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