Technical Product Management Lead, Datacenter Networking & Optical Interconnect

Entangled Future; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

PsiQuantum is seeking a Technical Product Management Lead for Datacenter Networking & Optical Interconnect in Palo Alto, CA (remote). A lead-level, full-time role in the Engineering team, part of the business operations.

The candidate will guide product strategy for advanced datacenter networking, leveraging optical interconnect capabilities, and will interact with skeptical buyers to demonstrate merit and value. Strong written communications are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in datacenter networking with depth in switch and fabric architecture.
• Experience as product owner or product management lead.
• Proven vendor-architect experience winning over skeptical buyers.
• Practical grasp of optical layer in networking, including link budgets and transceivers.
• Excellent written communication for documents scrutinized without your presence.

Skills

Datacenter networking

Product management

Vendor architect

Optical layer knowledge

Written communication

Job description

Technical Product Management Lead, Datacenter Networking & Optical Interconnect at PsiQuantum, Palo Alto, California, United States (remote). A lead-level full time position in the Engineering team, listed under business operations.

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 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

• 10+ years in datacenter networking with real depth in switch and fabric architecture; product management or product-owner experience.
• Has been the vendor architect in a room of skeptical buyers and won on merit.
• Practical grasp of the optical layer as a networking engineer uses it: link budgets, transceiver compatibility, reach and loss margin.
• Excellent written communication - a large share of the role is documents that survive scrutiny without you present.
• Zone 1- Bay Area and NYC