Sr Technical Product Manager - QPU Platform

Entangled Future; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

QuEra Computing in Boston, MA seeks a Senior Technical Product Manager for the QPU Platform to bridge physics goals with engineering execution across hardware and software teams.

You will define governance for requirements, create traceable hierarchies from high-level goals to subsystems, and collaborate with PhD scientists and engineers to accelerate hardware development in a hybrid delivery model.

Qualifications

• 8–15+ years of technical product management in deep-tech hardware environments.
• Demonstrated end-to-end requirements traceability from goals to subsystem specs.
• Experience with structured governance of documentation and acceptance criteria.
• Strong ability to engage with PhD-level scientists and systems engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build full traceable requirement hierarchies from physics goals to subsystems.
• Define acceptance criteria and validation plans at all levels.
• Decompose goals into Jira epics and stories while preserving validation rigor.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams in sprint planning and reviews.
• Operate in hybrid delivery environments where hardware constraints meet agile cadence.

Skills

Technical product management

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Requirements governance

Stakeholder alignment

Deep tech domain knowledge

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jama

Aha

Job description

Sr Technical Product Manager - QPU Platform at QuEra Computing, Boston, MA, USA. A senior-level full time position in the Product Management - Program Management team, listed under hardware engineering.

Requirements Translation & Traceability

You will work directly with quantum physicists to extract scientific intent — goals such as enabling a logical non-Clifford gate, achieving specific QPU-level performance milestones, or meeting target fidelity thresholds — and translate them into structured, executable engineering requirements.

Documentation Discipline & Governance

You will own and elevate the requirements process, not just participate in it.

This includes

• Defining standardized requirement templates
• Establishing definition-of-ready and definition-of-done criteria
• Implementing milestone readiness frameworks
• Institutionalizing documentation governance within Jira and Confluence
• Ensuring proper decomposition, traceability, ownership, and auditability

You will introduce structure without bureaucracy — building systems that accelerate execution rather than slow it down.

Agile Delivery Partnership

Engineering owns delivery. You will be their strongest product partner.

You understand where agile breaks in hardware environments — and how to adapt it without becoming dogmatic or reverting to rigid sequential processes.

Stakeholder Alignment & Process Maturity

You will align scientists, hardware engineers, and software engineers around shared execution frameworks.

You lead through credibility and demonstrated value — not mandate.

You have

• Personally built requirements governance frameworks, not just operated within them
• Demonstrated end-to-end requirement traceability from high-level goals to subsystem specifications
• Defined acceptance criteria and validation plans across complex systems
• Deep fluency in Jira and Confluence
• Experience with dedicated requirements management tools such as Jama or Aha
• Strong technical grounding in physics, electrical engineering, optics, or related fields
• The ability to engage meaningfully with PhD-level scientists and systems engineers

Responsibilities

• Build full traceable requirement hierarchies from top-level physics goals down to subsystem specifications
• Cover domains including control electronics, embedded systems, optics, calibration workflows, and automation
• Define clear acceptance criteria and validation plans at every level
• Ensure no critical requirement lives informally in someone’s head
• Your work will create clarity where complexity currently dominates.
• Structure requirements so they are consumable by agile hardware and software teams
• Decompose physics goals into Jira epics and stories while preserving validation rigor
• Participate fluently in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Operate effectively in hybrid delivery environments where hardware constraints meet agile cadence

Requirements

• Translating between research language and engineering execution models in real time
• Surfacing unstated assumptions in scientific requirements
• Challenging habits constructively
• Raising the overall maturity of technical product management across the organization
• 8–15+ years of experience in technical product management within deep-tech, hardware-centric, multi-disciplinary environments
• Background in industries where precision and traceability are non-negotiable, such as:
• Photonics and optical systems (e.g., Coherent, Lumentum, II-VI)
• Lidar and sensing (e.g., Luminar, Ouster)
• Defense and aerospace with photonics or directed energy programs
• Scientific instrumentation (e.g., Thorlabs, Newport)

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with quantum computing hardware or quantum software stacks
• Familiarity with neutral atom systems
• Experience with optical system integration, laser control, or free-space beam control
• Familiarity with calibration workflows, qubit characterization, or QPU benchmarking
• Experience building or scaling a technical product management function