Staff AI Product Engineer, FW/SW
PsiQuantum6 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for silicon photonics control and management.
- Interface firmware with photonic devices, ASICs, FPGAs, DACs, ADCs, temperature sensors, power-management devices, and other board-level electronics.
- Implement closed-loop control algorithms for optical operating points, temperature, power, bias, alignment, switching state, and other device variables.
- Develop real-time and event-driven firmware, initialization, calibration, configuration, monitoring, fault management, and recovery mechanisms.
- Define state machines and the overall software and firmware control architecture for startup, operation, fault handling, recovery, and shutdown.
- Support firmware and software updates, configuration management, versioning, system recovery, manufacturing calibration, production test, qualification, reliability testing, and failure analysis.
- Develop diagnostics and automated calibration and test capabilities for engineering, manufacturing, and field-service use.
- Collaborate with system architects, electrical engineers, and hardware engineers on requirements, architecture, bring-up, characterization, and debugging.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Controls Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- Significant professional experience developing firmware and software for complex embedded systems.
- Strong C/C++ programming experience for embedded systems.
- Experience with Python or similar languages for automation, system testing, data analysis, and hardware control.
- Understanding of embedded processors, microcontrollers, memory architectures, interrupts, timing, concurrency, and hardware interfaces.
- Experience with RTOS and/or embedded Linux environments.
- Experience developing software that directly controls physical hardware and implementing calibration, compensation, monitoring, and control algorithms.
- Experience with embedded communication protocols such as SPI, I²C, UART, GPIO, Ethernet, or similar interfaces.
- Strong hardware/software debugging skills, including hardware bring-up, characterization, and automated testing.
- Ability to read schematics, understand hardware architecture, develop firmware/software architectures from loosely defined requirements, and collaborate with electrical and hardware engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive health coverage for employees and dependents.
- 401(k) with company match and equity grants.
- Financial wellness tools, planning resources, wellness benefits, and family support programs.
- Life and disability insurance, paid leave programs, company-designated paid holidays, discretionary time off, and an end-of-year company shutdown.
- Full-time role with benefits eligibility varying by location, role, or employment status; many benefits are subsidized or fully paid by the company.
- Position may be filled across four U.S. geographic zones, including many remote locations.
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.