Technical Lead, Single Photon Sources Validation

PsiQuantum • Milpitas, CA

10h

About The Position

PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers capable of delivering breakthroughs in various foundational industries like energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, and materials. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on building and deploying million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems. Their architecture is based on silicon photonics, leveraging advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. Photonics offers advantages such as immunity to heat and electromagnetic interference, and integration with existing cryogenic cooling and fiber-optic infrastructure. In 2024, PsiQuantum announced government-funded projects to build utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago, Illinois. The company also develops algorithms and software, collaborating with Fortune 500 companies to prepare quantum solutions for real-world impact. Quantum computing is seen as a fundamental shift to solve challenges not addressable by classical computing. The technical lead for single photon source validation will be responsible for successfully driving validation projects, including planning, designing experiments, and characterizing electro-optical assemblies based on single photon source generation optical circuits and superconductive single photon detectors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in Engineering, Physics or Material Science, and 12+ years of industry experience.
• Proven track record on leading complex, cross-functional projects, related to the introduction of new concepts into successful products.
• Experience with single photon detectors and testing in cryogenic environments.
• Experience with non-linear optical photonic integrated circuits.
• Experience working with optical and electrical test equipment such as optical power meters, lasers, optical spectrum analyzer (OSA), oscilloscopes, function generators (AWG), vector network analyzer (VNA).
• Experience developing test methods and optimization, tuning/calibration algorithms.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with photonics quantum experiment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the validation planning and define figures of merits and validation plans for the cryogenic electro-optical assemblies.
• Lead the development of algorithms to perform data analysis and extract key performance parameters.
• Lead the execution of the validation plans, including debugging and characterization the cryogenic electro-optical assemblies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to review and provide feedback to the electro-optical assemblies design.
• Contribute to the bring up of laboratory cryogenic setups comprised of light sources, detector, switches; function generators, oscilloscopes, etc. to validate design functionality of the electro-optical assemblies in cryogenic environments.
• Contribute to the development of software scripts to automatically drive the measurements setups and feed data into a database.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees