Senior Digital System Architect

PsiQuantum; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health coverage

401(k) with company match

Equity grants

Wellness programs

Paid time off and holidays

Discretionary time off

Family support programs

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

PsiQuantum in Palo Alto (remote) seeks a Senior Digital System Architect to join the 3600 - Systems Architecture team. You will shape digital-logic systems driving our photonic quantum computer and work across hardware and software boundaries.

As a senior architect, you will translate complex requirements into FPGA-based solutions, collaborate with physicists and designers, write clear specifications, and model behavior in Python and SystemVerilog test benches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years of digital design experience.
• SystemVerilog (or VHDL) knowledge for design and simulation.
• Experience with FPGAs (Xilinx preferred).
• Strong analytical and communication skills; able to work across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level requirements into hardware specifications.
• Develop low-latency algorithms for data-plane tasks in optical quantum computing.
• Integrate algorithms into FPGAs with digital-design teams.
• Collaborate with physicists and designers to optimize latency and footprint.
• Write requirements, documentation, and verification tests.
• Develop cycle-accurate Python models for simulations and Python-based tests.

Skills

Python programming

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Digital design

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline

Tools

SystemVerilog

VHDL

FPGA (Xilinx)

Job description

Senior Digital System Architect at PsiQuantum, Palo Alto, California (remote). A senior-level full time position in the 3600 - Systems Architecture team, listed under hardware engineering.

Come join us.

Job Summary

We are looking for a digital hardware system architect to join our System-Architecture team. You will work in a multi-technology environment and will contribute to shaping and defining the digital-logic systems which drive our photonic quantum computer.

Note: PsiQuantum will only reach out to you using an official PsiQuantum email address and will never ask you for bank account information as part of the interview process. Please report any suspicious activity to [e-mail] .

Base pay is one part of the total compensation package. Full-time roles are eligible for equity and benefits.Our compensation ranges reflect the cost of labor across multiple U.S. geographicmarkets, and we pay based on defined geographic zones. This position may be filled withinone of the followingU.S. geographic zones, each with its own salary range.

Actual compensation may vary outside of these ranges and is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, relevant education and training, competencies, experience, geographic location, business needs, and internal equity. Your recruiter can share more details about the salary range applicable to your location during the hiring process.

• Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC
• Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC
• Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento
• Zone 4 - Examples include Nashville and Phoenix/Tempe and many remote locations

This position includes the following benefits:

• competitive health coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with company match
• equity grants
• access to financial wellness tools and planning resources
• wellness benefits
• family support programs
• life and disability insurance
• paid leave programs
• company-designated paid holidays
• discretionary time off (DTO)
• an end-of-year company shutdown

Responsibilities

• Gather and translate high-level abstract requirements into concrete hardware requirements.
• Devise and implement low-latency algorithms and methods to solve various time-critical tasks that take place in the data-plane of an optical quantum computer.
• Work with other digital-design experts to integrate algorithms into FPGAs.
• Collaborate closely with physicists and digital designers to arbitrate design choices and optimize designs to meet algorithmic performance while matching latency, throughput and footprint constraints.
• Write requirements and documentation.
• Implement cycle-accurate Python models to be integrated in discrete-time-event simulations.
• Implement SystemVerilog implementations matching Python models.
• Write behavioral tests for implementations in Python.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant work in digital design.
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog (or VHDL) for design and simulation.
• Experience working with FPGAs (Xilinx preferred) and associated tooling.
• Strong critical thinking skills to devise creative and analytical approaches to solving novel, loosely-defined complex problems.
• Team player with an ability to work effectively across departments and time-zones.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage a variety of audiences.
• Experienced Python programmer who strives to write clear code in the context of a small team of contributors.
• Pro-active with the ability to work independently with limited direction, in a fast-moving start-up environment nice-to-have:
• Distributed system experience: involving event correlation from multiple sources, under real-time constraints.