At planqc, we are building scalable quantum computers based on neutral atoms, one of the most promising platforms for achieving real-world quantum advantage. Your role is to develop our achitectural vision and technically lead the product development by technically defining workpackages, interfaces and performances. At the same time you see and own the whole picture.
This role is essentially a Senior Experimental AMO Physicist role augmented by technical management and system engineering skills for efficient distribution of work in a large team. As a Quantum Systems Architect you are driving architectural decisions on our major quantum processing products and technically coordinate the work across all of its subsystems technical teams: identifying key technical risks and strategies to mitigate them, defining logic, interfaces, functions, and performance targets, running design and implementation reviews, and maintaining the technical budgets that keep the system on track to perform.
Beyond individual projects, you will help shape how planqc does systems engineering as a discipline, establishing best practices and exchanging learnings across project teams and hardware generations. This role sits at the intersection of physics and engineering, working shoulder to shoulder with mechanics, optics, electronics, software, and quantum algorithm teams. It is ideal for someone who thinks in systems, enjoys resolving the hard trade-offs between subsystems, and wants to take technical ownership of how our neutral-atom quantum computers are built — for example, our next-generation continuous atom loading system.