Jobs at D-Wave Systems

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 the design and development of software for quantum machine learning methods. Collaborate with researchers and communicate findings. Oversee best practices in machine learning systems and influence product offerings.

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.

Own integration and deployment of production dual-rail quantum processors. Drive project management and cross-team technical problem solving across electrical, cryogenic, RF, and system engineering. Design and run validation/test programs, plan long-term integration strategies, and improve system resilience for production quantum systems.

Perform experimental characterization, calibration, and noise analysis of superconducting quantum processors. Develop models, simulations, and analysis routines to fit data and detect outliers. Design parametric device improvements, assess environmental impacts (packaging, IO, cryogenics), document results, contribute to LISP software for processor modeling and operation, and collaborate across interdisciplinary teams.

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.

Leads the Systems Engineering organization for D-Wave’s gate-model quantum computing platform. Defines strategy, architecture, requirements, interfaces, integration, verification, validation, and technical governance across quantum hardware, software, cryogenic, control, and cloud systems. Partners with product, research, hardware, software, manufacturing, and executive teams to deliver scalable commercial systems. Builds and mentors multidisciplinary engineering leadership and resolves system-level trade-offs involving performance, schedule, risk, manufacturability, and product objectives.

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.

Drive integration of D-Wave's QPU fabrication processes from R&D to low-to-medium-volume production. Design and execute experiments, operate and qualify lithography, deposition and etch tools, implement SPC and in situ metrology, troubleshoot equipment, mentor junior engineers, and support design and facility build-out.

Design and verify superconducting integrated circuits and layouts for quantum processors. Model device behavior, use/extend EDA toolchains, simulate electromagnetic and quantum effects, and collaborate cross-functionally to debug and document designs.

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.