Jobs at Monarch Quantum, Inc.

Manages a team of five software engineers while overseeing staffing, execution, technical quality, engineering processes, risk tracking, and delivery. The role includes mentoring and career development, recruiting, code reviews, CI/CD and tooling improvements, agile planning, stakeholder reporting, and cross-functional coordination with hardware, firmware, product, and program teams. The manager ensures software delivery remains aligned with product schedules and maintains clear documentation, quality standards, and predictable execution.

Develop and lead robotics software for motion and trajectory planning, kinematics, robot control, world modeling, and hardware integration. Build collision-free planning systems, real-time driver layers, validation suites, and learning-based robotics capabilities. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate with hardware and process teams, and ensure reliable, safe operation on physical robots.

Leads the architecture, roadmap, and hands-on development of fleet management, robotics data management, orchestration, control, and MES software. Serves as the team’s senior technical authority, making system design decisions, resolving complex engineering challenges, mentoring engineers, driving coding and architecture standards, managing technical risk, and collaborating across robotics, firmware, hardware, and software teams.

Leads architecture and development of fleet management, robotics data management, and MES software. Builds C++ and Python systems for robotic station monitoring, configuration, telemetry, logging, and results tracking. Sets technical direction for distributed automation integrations, mentors engineers, drives code quality and testing, manages builds and dependencies, and collaborates across robotics, firmware, hardware, and software teams.

The Robotics Process Engineer 3 will handle engineering tasks, drive innovation in design and analysis, and support project engineering within a startup environment.

Own build schedules and cross-functional execution for complex hardware prototypes through production readiness. Coordinate engineering, supply chain, process development, operations, quality, and design teams; track materials, documentation, tooling, inspections, configurations, risks, and milestones. Provide status updates, escalate schedule risks, and establish repeatable build processes in a fast-paced startup environment.

Leads cross-functional hardware development programs spanning mechanical, electrical, photonics, software, and firmware teams. Owns scope, schedules, budgets, risks, vendor coordination, supply chain dependencies, technical reviews, integration, testing, documentation, and project execution. Requires a Ph.D. in engineering and at least eight years of relevant hardware engineering or product management experience, with demonstrated ability to lead structured hardware development programs independently or with contract manufacturers.

Leads cross-functional hardware build programs from engineering prototypes through production readiness. Owns build schedules, dependencies, critical paths, configuration management, material readiness, inspection readiness, risk mitigation, and leadership reporting. Coordinates engineering, supply chain, process development, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams to deliver predictable, scalable builds and resolve bottlenecks across multiple programs.

Senior individual-contributor responsible for designing and implementing automated test infrastructure, performing device- and system-level opto-electronic characterization (L-I-V, spectral, beam quality, noise, LIDT), developing validation and environmental test protocols, ensuring regulatory and laser-safety compliance, authoring test documentation, and providing technical leadership and guidance across development and production.

Lead cross-functional development of quantum photonics modules from prototype through qualification and high-volume production. Responsibilities include integrated project planning, budgets, phase-gate reviews, milestone management, technical risk mitigation, design-for-excellence initiatives, supplier qualification, second-sourcing, cost reduction, yield improvement, and executive status reporting. The role coordinates optical, mechanical, electrical, process, test, quality, and supply-chain teams while driving technical decisions and continuous improvement in a startup environment.

Leads the architecture, design, integration, and validation of advanced photonic and laser systems for quantum technologies. Responsibilities include laser stabilization, narrow-linewidth sources, low-noise control systems, optical subsystem design, system requirements, experimental validation, engineering documentation, laser safety compliance, technical roadmapping, and mentoring engineers. The role requires hands-on AMO or ultrafast laser experience, fiber optics expertise, and the ability to make cross-functional technical decisions in a startup environment.

Leads robotic process development engineering, including recruiting and managing multidisciplinary teams; translating optical and mechanical designs into scalable manufacturing processes; developing automated precision photonic assembly systems; and overseeing process architecture, equipment, alignment, verification, validation, and qualification. Partners cross-functionally on design-for-manufacturability, production transition, process optimization, and complex engineering programs while balancing schedule, budget, resources, and risk.

Build core electro-optics and laser hardware capabilities in a startup environment. Design, simulate, fabricate, control, and test high-precision, high-power laser systems and beam modulation technologies. Work across electronics, controls, firmware, optics, measurement, and systems engineering to validate performance through experimentation and solve complex technical problems.

Design, build, simulate, fabricate, and test high-precision, high-power laser and electro-optical hardware systems. The role spans electronic hardware, controls, systems, firmware, programming, optics, test and measurement, and system validation. The engineer will solve complex technical problems hands-on in a startup environment, develop core hardware capabilities, and apply analytical and experimental methods to validate performance. High-power laser safety expertise is preferred.

Design, fabricate, simulate, and test multidisciplinary electro-optical laser hardware and systems. The role requires hands-on expertise across electronics, controls, firmware, programming, optics, lasers, measurement, and system design, with exceptional depth in at least one area. The engineer will generate and control high-precision, high-power lasers, perform real-world experimentation, validate performance, and contribute to building foundational hardware capabilities in a fast-paced startup environment.

Design precision opto-mechanical components and fixtures for photonic systems, perform tolerance and thermal/FEA analyses, create GD&T fabrication drawings, manage BOMs and ECOs, support prototyping and production tooling, perform cleanroom assembly and alignment (adhesive bonding, soldering), and assist in root-cause/failure analysis for production issues.

Design, develop, package, and validate photonic components (isolators, switches, fiber connectors, AOMs). Perform optical modeling, opto-mechanical design, alignment, testing, reliability/failure analysis, and support scaling prototypes to high-volume manufacturing while collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers.

Leads electrical integration of photonics light-engine server racks, including power, harnesses, thermal interfaces, and EMI/EMC compliance. Drives architecture decisions, requirements translation, vendor coordination, project schedules, design and test reviews, integration events, documentation, and customer delivery. Requires independent project execution across electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, and contract manufacturing teams.

Lead cross-functional integration and delivery of photonics server racks, manage scope/schedule/budget, translate customer requirements into design, coordinate internal teams and vendors, run reviews and testing, mitigate risks, and deliver installation and support activities.

Lead and grow a mechanical engineering team to design, integrate, verify, and transition complex laser and photonic systems to production. Define company-wide mechanical processes, manage projects from requirements through qualification, oversee rack and cooling architectures, implement DFM/DFA for scalable builds, and collaborate with Optical, Electrical, and Software teams to deliver products on schedule and budget.