R&D Technician

psiquantum; Palo Alto (CA); In loco; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

PsiQuantum is building the world's first commercially viable quantum computer powered by silicon photonics. Our Foundry Engineering team partners with manufacturers and research partners to support advanced silicon-based photonic platforms enabling scalable quantum systems.

In this role, you will support day-to-day foundry operations, wafer logistics, wafer inspection, data upload, inventory tracking, documentation, and office/lab coordination activities.

Competenze

• Must have strong attention to detail in day‑to‑day operations.
• Clear communication across multiple teams and sites.
• Experience with foundry operations or wafer handling is preferred.
• Organized and able to support lab/office workflows reliably.

Mansioni

• Support wafer handling activities, including FOSB mapping, wafer transfers, lot start documentation, and delivery of required documentation and materials to clean room.
• Maintain accurate wafers in process (WIP) reports, wafer/FOSB inventory records and related tracking updates.
• Update tool status and WIP reports twice per day and communicate key updates to the team.
• Attend operations morning meetings, take clear notes, and distribute relevant action items, status updates, and operational information to the team.
• Coordinate wafer and package logistics, including wafer shipments, shipping contacts, package pickup from Shipping & Receiving, and maintenance of shipping addresses, emails, and phone numbers.
• Support lab, office, and partner-site operations, including lab activities, SP3 data collection and other operational systems.
• Manage and operate a dedicated lab for wafer cryogenic testing including sample preparation, material acquisition, minor maintenance and remaining logistics needs.
• Inspect wafers using optical microscopy, capture wafer images, and upload images and related records to support the engineering team.
• Maintain an orderly office and shared work environment, including purchasing and restocking office supplies, lab supp

Conoscenze

Attention to detail

Clear communication

Foundry operations

Wafer handling

Descrizione del lavoro

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 closed a $1 billion funding round that valued the company at $7 billion. In 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce signed a $100 million Letter of Intent under the CHIPS and Science Act, followed by a $125 million agreement with DARPA under Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, PsiQuantum's most valuable U.S. government agreement to date. This year, we also broke ground on our utility-scale quantum computer in Brisbane, Australia, and continued building out our Chicago site. Victor Peng, our CEO, and co-founder Jeremy O'Brien, now Executive Chairman, lead a team and board that reflects how seriously the world is taking this build, joined this year by Intel's Lip-Bu Tan and Atomico's Niklas Zennström.

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 Airbus, 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 now have the funding, the government validation, and the sites under construction to make it real.

Job Summary

PsiQuantum is building the world's first commercially viable quantum computer powered by silicon photonics. Our Foundry Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor manufacturers and research partners to support advanced silicon-based photonic platforms that enable scalable quantum systems.

In this role, you will support day-to-day foundry operations, wafer logistics, wafer inspection, data upload, inventory tracking, documentation, and office/lab coordination activities. This position is hands-on and highly operational, requiring strong attention to detail, clear communication, and consistent follow-through across multiple systems, tools, and partner sites.

The ideal candidate will be organized, dependable, comfortable working with wafers and lab/office workflows, and able to support engineering teams by keeping wafer movement, documentation, inspection records, reports, and operational communications accurate and up to date. You will work closely with PsiQuantum engineers, operations teams, and other external partners to help ensure smooth execution of wafer processing and foundry-related activities.

Responsibilities

• Support wafer handling activities, including FOSB mapping, wafer transfers, lot start documentation, and delivery of required documentation and materials to clean room.
• Maintain accurate wafers in process (WIP) reports, wafer/FOSB inventory records and related tracking updates.
• Update tool status and WIP reports twice per day and communicate key updates to the team.
• Attend operations morning meetings, take clear notes, and distribute relevant action items, status updates, and operational information to the team.
• Coordinate wafer and package logistics, including wafer shipments, shipping contacts, package pickup from Shipping & Receiving, and maintenance of shipping addresses, emails, and phone numbers.
• Support lab, office, and partner-site operations, including lab activities, SP3 data collection and other operational systems.
• Manage and operate a dedicated lab for wafer cryogenic testing including sample preparation, material acquisition, minor maintenance and remaining logistics needs.
• Inspect wafers using optical microscopy, capture wafer images, and upload images and related records to support the engineering team.
• Maintain an orderly office and shared work environment, including purchasing and restocking office supplies, lab supp