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Silicon Photonics Engineer

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, fau

Company

PsiQuantum

Location

Palo Alto, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-03T20:45:56+00:00

PsiQuantum is hiring a Silicon Photonics Engineer in Palo Alto to design and implement photonic integrated circuits for its quantum computing hardware, with emphasis on complex switching circuits. The work covers device concept, electromagnetic simulation, layout, tapeout support, design verification and PDK and software development, alongside device, hardware and system teams. The posting asks for a PhD or equivalent in electrical engineering or physics, five years in integrated photonics, Lumerical, layout tools such as IPKISS or gdsfactory, and Python.