Director, Datacenter System Architecture

PsiQuantums 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 architectureand approachisbased on silicon photonics. Byleveragingthe 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: photonsdontfeel 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 2025PsiQuantumclosed a$1 billionfunding round that valued the company at$7 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 InitiativePsiQuantumsmost 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 OBrien now ExecutiveChairman lead a team and board that reflects how seriously the world is taking this build joined this year by Intels Lip-Bu Tan and Atomicos NiklasZennström.

PsiQuantumalso develops the algorithms and software needed to make these systems commercially valuable. Our application software and industry teams work directly with leading Fortune 500 companies includingAirbusLockheedMartin Mercedes-Benz Boehringer Ingelheim and Mitsubishi Chemical to prepare quantum solutions for real-world impact.

Quantum computing is not an extension of classical computing. Itrepresentsa fundamental shift and a path to mastering challenges that cannot besolvedany other way. The potential is enormous and we now havethe fundingthe governmentvalidation andthe sitesunder construction to make it real.

Job Summary:

The Director Platform & System will define the strategy for delivering a complete integrated product that combines PsiQuantums photonic engine with partner-built systems and components. This role will own the system-level requirements architecture delivery model and cross-subsystem trade-offs required to bring the product from specification through prototype and production. The Director will establish system specifications across form factor rack design connectivity power thermal performance monitoring redundancy and serviceability while defining the control and management interface for customer orchestration. This individual will also lead collaboration with OEM ODM joint venture strategic manufacturing and test partners to ensure the system is designed for manufacturability testability and successful deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Own the system requirements spec: radix form factor rack height connector type and count faceplate power thermal monitoring redundancy.
• Define the delivery strategy: what we build what partners build and how the product comes together.
• Own the thermal and power budget as a constraint on the architecture not an outcome of it.
• Define the control and management interface strategy for the customers orchestration layer.
• Identify evaluate and work with partners OEM ODM JV and strategic across the system.
• Arbitrate cross-subsystem trades and hold the line when a local optimization costs the system.
• Work with partners manufacturing and test on DFM and test access from the start not at the end.

Experience/Qualifications:

• 10 years hardware systems engineering; 3 directing system architecture for a rack-mounted networking or datacenter product that shipped.
• Direct command of datacenter hardware constraints: rack unit budgets airflow power delivery front-panel density serviceability environmental standards.
• Took a system from specification through prototype and a partner or contract-manufacturer build.
• Familiar with datacenter cabling and the realities of high-density front-panel port counts.
• Writes specifications engineering teams can actually build against.

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