Senior Manager in Applied Quantum Dynamics - Theorist

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, Illinois. These initiatives reflect a growing recognition that quantum computing will be strategically and economically defining—and that now is the time to scale. 

PsiQuantum also develops the algorithms and software needed to make these systems commercially valuable. Our application, software, and industry teams work directly with leading Fortune 500 companies—including Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mitsubishi Chemical—to prepare quantum solutions for real-world impact. 

Quantum computing is not an extension of classical computing. It represents a fundamental shift—and a path to mastering challenges that cannot be solved any other way. The potential is enormous, and we have a clear path to make it real. 

Come join us. 

Job Summary:

A Senior Manager in Applied Quantum Dynamics - Theorist is sought as part of PsiQuantum’s Exploratory technologies division.

The successful candidate will spearhead the company’s pursuit of incorporating increasingly deterministic sources of entanglement into its future roadmap for innovating performance improvements for future generations of utility scale quantum computers. At the heart of the role informing an evidenced based assessment of the efficacy of approaches to realizing quantum dot technologies and the resources required to overcome performance challenges and scaling. Considerations will include underpinning quantum dot device physics, componentry design, fabrication tolerance implications, material purity considerations and operational conditions. The role will enjoy close collaboration across the world leading talent across a diversity of displines within PsiQuanutm in order to construct and close quantum computationally relevant physical models that inform the company’s complete understanding and informed assessment of the quantum dot technologies including their ultimate performance limitations, scaleup requirements and tradeoff implications for logical qubit errors. The role will include develop understanding of PsiQuantum’s quantum computing architecture as well as contributing experimental analysis for model validation. In addition, the role will have close interaction with the world’s leading academic and industrial partners strategically developed as required.

The role is based at PsiQuantum’s UK R&D facility at Daresbury, in the culturally rich Northwest of England in close proximity to the Liverpool, Manchester and Chester populations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of a quantum dot simulation, to directly inform quantum computational error accounting and architecture design.
• Lead by example of collaborative cross-team work ethic, establishing high quality quantum dot model validation activity that incorporates efforts from: the physical simulation under your direct remit, other PsiQ systems architecture teams and PsiQ computational architecture teams.
• Whilst incorporating a holistic approach, identify the largest technical challenges to incorporating spin-photon entanglement devices and deterministic single photon emitters into quantum computing systems and architectures.
• Oversee the company’s exploration of bringing quantum dot technologies into the company’s technological roadmap for future improved hardware generations.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members in the development of novel hardware solutions, model construction & validation and interface with architecture teams for error accounting.
• Hire the best talent of physicists and engineers, as required for team growth.
• As required, the role will lead to strategic partnerships with external entities and as such the role will have responsibilities in reporting from an expert technical perspective to PsiQ, the efficacy and value of partnerships and contributing efficiently in optimizing and developing the partnerships.

Experience/Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a range of technically skilled specialists in a coordinated effort to deliver ambitious technical projects.
• For effective leadership and mentorship in this role, we require demonstrated technical expertise in some, or all, of the following
  • Solid state quantum emitters modelling.
  • Photonic structure design.
  • Experimental data analysis.
  • Quantum optical systems architecture.
• Demonstrated experience with some, or all, of the following
  • Proven team player with an ability to work across departments and/or teams of diverse technical skills sets.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • An ability to work and operate in a faced paced startup environment consistent with PsiQuantums values of communication, collaboration, respect, results and challenge.
  • Experience in collaborating with external partners to achieve a common goal.

PsiQuantum provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. PsiQuantum does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable laws.

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