Senior Engineer, System Automation (Subsystems)
PsiQuantum2 days ago
Base Salary
$141k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design subsystem control abstractions within the existing System Automation framework.
- Develop reusable Python APIs, functions, and automation routines for specified subsystem functionality and operating workflows.
- Maintain readable, tested, documented, and maintainable hardware-control code aligned with framework patterns.
- Work with design leads and engineers to understand manual workflows, operating conditions, constraints, and software pain points.
- Translate hardware workflow needs into software requirements, examples, reusable routines, tests, and documentation.
- Debug automation issues involving Python code, hardware interfaces, instruments, data acquisition, or test setups.
- Contribute to operating procedures and convert manual steps into reliable automated routines.
- Identify automation needs, communicate requirements and tradeoffs, and support new hardware generations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 3 years of software engineering experience in hardware, scientific, automation, test, embedded, control, or laboratory systems.
- Strong Python software engineering skills and the ability to write readable, tested, and maintainable software.
- Experience building APIs, automation workflows, instrument-control code, test code, or hardware-control software for complex systems.
- Experience working in existing software frameworks, following design patterns, participating in code reviews, and incorporating feedback.
- Ability to translate ambiguous hardware workflows into software requirements, reusable routines, tests, documentation, and examples.
- Strong cross-functional communication and documentation skills.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with photonic, optical, laser, RF, electronic, or electro-optic hardware.
- Preferred: familiarity with configuration files, SQL, data models, logs, dashboards, topology-aware systems, control-system state models, databases, observability tools, orchestration tools, internal APIs, or data acquisition systems.
- Preferred: experience with calibration, validation, commissioning, lab automation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or experimental control systems.
Benefits
- Health coverage for employees and dependents, 401(k) with company match, equity grants, financial wellness resources, wellness benefits, family support programs, life and disability insurance, paid leave, company-designated holidays, discretionary time off, and an end-of-year company shutdown.
- Benefits may have eligibility requirements and vary by location, role, or employment status.
- The role may be filled in U.S. geographic Zones 1–4, including many remote locations in Zone 4.
About PsiQuantum
PsiQuantum builds photonic quantum computers designed to achieve fault-tolerant, million‑qubit scale, and develops algorithms and software for commercial use. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, and in 2024 announced government-funded projects to build utility-scale systems in Brisbane and Chicago. It collaborates with enterprise and defense customers, with publicly named partners including Lockheed Martin, Mercedes‑Benz, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mitsubishi Chemical.