Staff Project Manager AI product engineering

PsiQuantum; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

PsiQuantum in Milpitas, California, is seeking a staff project manager to lead AI product engineering in a hardware-focused program. This remote-friendly, full-time role sits in the Engineering team and requires coordinating HW, FW, SW, and manufacturing across multidisciplinary groups.

You will manage schedules, procurement, BOM readiness, vendors, and NTI/NPI development while communicating effectively with executives.

Qualifications

• BS in engineering, physics, computer science or related technical discipline.
• Experience delivering hardware-intensive products involving HW, FW, SW, system integration, and manufacturing.
• Proven ability to manage integrated schedules, procurement, BOM/material readiness, vendors, supply chain, and NTI/NPI development.
• Ability to understand technical dependencies, identify critical-path risks, and work with engineering teams without needing to be SME in every discipline.
• Experience with silicon photonics, optical systems, semiconductor products, networking hardware, embedded systems or related electro-optical products is highly desirable.
• Strong organizational, written, verbal, and executive presentation skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware-software-system integration programs across multiple engineering teams.
• Manage integrated schedules, procurement, BOM readiness, vendors and contract manufacturers.
• Coordinate across HW, FW, SW and manufacturing to ensure on-time delivery.
• Provide clear, executive-level updates and risk management to stakeholders.

Skills

Program management

HW/SW integration

Vendor management

Photonic hardware

Executive communication

Education

BS in engineering/physics/computer science

Job description

Staff Project Manager AI product engineering at PsiQuantum, Milpitas, California, United States (remote). A lead-level full time position in the Engineering team, listed under hardware engineering.

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 co

Requirements

• BS in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline with significant experience managing complex multidisciplinary engineering and product-development programs.
• Demonstrated experience delivering hardware-intensive products involving HW, FW, SW, system integration, and manufacturing.
• Strong experience managing engineering builds, integrated schedules, procurement, BOM/material readiness, vendors, supply chain, contract manufacturers, and NTI/NPI development.
• Ability to understand technical dependencies, identify critical-path risks, and work effectively with engineering teams without needing to be the subject-matter expert in every discipline.
• Experience withsilicon photonics, optical systems, semiconductor products, networking hardware, embedded systems, or other complex electro-optical products is highly desirable.
• Strong organizational, written, verbal, and executive presentation skills are required.
• Zone 1- Bay Area and NYC