Staff Quantum Engineer (Qubit System Performance)

Entangled Future; British Columbia; Hybrid; CAD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Photonic Inc. in British Columbia, Canada, is seeking a Staff Quantum Engineer (Qubit System Performance) to lead the performance optimization of spin-photon qubit architectures within the hardware engineering group.

You will drive system-level requirements, collaborate with device physicists and computer architecture experts, and help translate cutting-edge quantum research into scalable, high-performance hardware solutions in a hybrid work environment.

Job description

Staff Quantum Engineer (Qubit System Performance) at Photonic Inc, British Columbia, Canada (Hybrid). A lead-level full time position in the Engineering team, listed under hardware engineering.

As Staff Quantum Engineer – Performance at Photonic, you are a leader on the spin‑photon qubit development team where you will play a crucial role in enhancing the performance of qubit architectures. Leveraging your deep technical skills in quantum engineering, curiosity, and synthetic thinking, you will make technical decisions quickly while keeping a view of the broader context to accelerate learning and derisking, and to generate system requirements for execution by other teams.In this position, you will collaborate closely with high‑performing teams of product engineers, with expertise spanning from device physics to classical computer architecture and compilers. You thrive on the excitement of mastering new technology and reducing science to practice, while bringing your significant hands‑on expertise, open mind, and creativity to tackle key challenges as we build the world’s first truly scalable quantum computing system.