Jobs at D-Wave Systems

Lead end-to-end development of high-value U.S. government proposals for quantum hardware R&D. Identify funding opportunities, build business cases, coordinate cross-functional teams for budgeting/resourcing, ensure compliance and submission quality, integrate AI tools compliantly, and engage government program managers while tracking federal spending and competitor activity.

Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and business functions, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, candidate communication, and onboarding handoff. Partner with hiring managers to define roles, manage searches, and deliver a strong candidate experience. Build talent-sourcing initiatives, manage applicant pipelines, use recruiting tools and ATS platforms, and prioritize multiple searches in a fast-changing technical and scientific research environment.

Leads manufacturing engineering for advanced cryogenic products, including process development, production scaling, documentation, tooling, new product introduction, testing, quality improvement, and root-cause investigations. Collaborates with engineering, supply chain, service, lab operations, suppliers, and manufacturing partners. Mentors production personnel, drives cross-functional improvement projects, supports outsourcing decisions, and ensures product quality, safety, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.

Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize PVD systems and thin-film deposition processes for semiconductor fabrication. Design and analyze DOE experiments, improve yield and reliability, maintain processes of record, run wafer lots, analyze metrology data, and implement cross-functional process improvements. The role also supports equipment vendors, documentation, lab infrastructure, safety, and cleanroom operations, with potential relocation and up to 10% domestic travel.

Conduct experimental research on superconducting quantum processors, including device characterization, calibration, noise reduction, performance modeling, and processor optimization. Develop experimental procedures, theoretical models, simulations, data-analysis routines, and LISP infrastructure for processor operation. Document findings and collaborate with physicists, engineers, designers, cryogenic experts, software developers, and other internal teams.

Provides strategic legal support across corporate and commercial matters in the EMEA region. Drafts and negotiates complex commercial, technology, procurement, software, research, and confidentiality agreements; advises on legal risks and business operations; supports contract lifecycle management; partners with cross-functional teams; manages external counsel; and delivers practical legal guidance in a global, technology-driven environment.

Leads technical engagements with North American enterprise customers adopting quantum computing solutions. Presents products and roadmaps, identifies optimization use cases, supports deployments, provides advisory and technical support, and builds long-term client relationships. Collaborates with sales, product, professional services, marketing, and development teams to communicate customer needs, identify service opportunities, and drive measurable ROI. The role requires 30%–50% travel for conferences, client meetings, training, and sales events.

Design and build core platform infrastructure, backend services, tooling, and user-facing features supporting quantum simulators and quantum processors. Lead architecture and implementation of scalable, resilient systems; troubleshoot performance issues; contribute across the software lifecycle; participate in code and design reviews; and mentor junior engineers. Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and applications engineers to deliver reliable production solutions.

Lead and develop a team of experimental physicists and materials scientists advancing quantum processor technology. Set technical priorities, allocate people and budgets, manage risks, and partner across engineering, fabrication, software, product, and program management. Guide superconducting circuit, quantum annealing, gate-model, cryogenic, and processor scaling initiatives while fostering scientific innovation. Contribute to technical reviews, publications, patents, roadmap decisions, hiring, performance management, and long-term organizational capability.

Supports 24/7 cybersecurity operations including threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, identity and endpoint security, DLP, network and cloud security, SaaS risk evaluations, and enterprise resilience. The role develops SIEM and threat detection capabilities, enhances security controls through scripting and configuration, leads cyber incident responses, collaborates across technology teams, and delivers employee security awareness training.

Lead and modernize global HR operations, technology, governance, and service delivery. Own HRIS roadmap, drive automation and AI adoption, ensure compliance and audit readiness, support global expansion and M&A, and build a high-performing global HR operations team.

Lead day-to-day PCB manufacturing for quantum hardware: manage a technical team, coordinate with engineering and suppliers, optimize processes and quality systems, maintain documentation and inventory, support rapid prototyping and production readiness, and ensure safety and facility compliance.

Lead design, test, and continuous improvement of cryogenic systems for quantum computers. Drive root-cause analyses, develop experiments, create engineering documentation, support integration, commissioning, and field service, and mentor junior engineers while coordinating cross-functional projects to improve reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.

Develop, simulate, test, and deploy high-impact quantum applications and algorithms for chemistry, materials science, machine learning, finance, cryptography, and other domains. Collaborate with research, software, firmware, hardware, and quantum engineering teams to optimize algorithms for hardware constraints, support simulation capabilities, execute applications on quantum hardware, and communicate complex technical concepts effectively.

Lead and drive research in quantum error correction for dual-rail erasure qubits: code and decoder design, logical operations, resource estimation, and co-design with hardware, control, compiler, and architecture teams. Mentor junior researchers, set technical direction, and advise on fault-tolerance roadmap toward realizing logical qubits.

Create and maintain customer-facing technical documentation (API references, user guides, hardware docs, code examples, release notes). Collaborate with software, hardware, support, product, and marketing teams; participate in product lifecycle; improve documentation processes, single-sourcing, and discoverability; use Git and Jira to track and resolve documentation issues.

Design and deliver quantum optimization solutions by mapping customer problems to D-Wave hybrid solvers, building and testing prototypes, developing production applications, and collaborating with customers and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery and product feedback.

Develops and executes microwave, electrical, and cryogenic measurements for superconducting quantum device characterization and validation. Maintains and optimizes cryogenic and measurement systems, performs device-performance data analysis, and builds experiment automation and analysis pipelines. Troubleshoots procedures and tools, documents methods and results, and collaborates with physics and engineering teams to provide feedback for device-development cycles.

Design, test, characterize, and optimize cryogenic RF networks and hardware for quantum computers. Model and simulate RF performance, develop validation plans, perform lab testing and troubleshooting, select materials and manufacturing approaches for cryogenic PCBs and interconnects, integrate systems with cross-functional teams, work with vendors, and drive continuous improvement of RF designs and test methodologies.

Conduct market and competitive intelligence research for quantum computing products; track competitors, patents, publications, financial signals, and industry trends. Use AI-enabled tools and dashboards (Tableau/Power BI/Python) to gather, analyze, and visualize data. Produce reports and presentations to inform product strategy and support cross-functional teams.