D-Wave

Manager, Quantum Processor Development

D-Wave

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$134,909 - CA$202,364 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Lead and mentor a team of experimental physicists, fostering a culture of technical excellence, creativity, and collaboration.
  • Work with your team to set goals, provide timely feedback, and support the professional development of each team member.
  • Work with your team, Program and Product Management to scope projects and ensure program plans are achievable.
  • Partner with HR and Senior Leadership to support functions such as recruitment, strategic planning and budgeting.
  • Champion a culture of inclusion, integrity, accountability, and open scientific inquiry.
  • Identify skills gaps and growth opportunities within the team to meet evolving organizational needs.
  • Collaborate closely with teams across hardware engineering, cryogenics, fabrication, software, quantum applications and product management to ensure seamless integration and operation, including identifying areas of process improvement.
  • Ensure team’s efforts align with business priorities.
  • Guide your team through root cause analysis of complex, interdisciplinary systems issues, in collaboration with expertise from other teams.
  • Communicate team priorities and progress to internal stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • Develop a solid understanding of D-Wave’s superconducting processor technology and use that understanding to guide prioritization and resource allocation.
  • Stay up to date with the relevant competitive landscape and academic research; help to evaluate relevant scientific and technological advancements to support product decisions.
  • Contribute to technical work, patents, internal and external publications, and conference presentations.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, encouraging team members to propose, experiment with, and evaluate new ideas.
  • Participate in or lead hands-on experimental work as needed, bringing a systems-level perspective to technical challenges.
  • With Program Management, identify and manage risks in project execution.
  • Identify and manage risks in resource planning, and team operations.
  • Support roadmap development and contribute to long-term technical strategy.

Requirements

  • Graduate degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent research experience.
  • 8+ years of experience working in quantum computing, superconducting circuits, or experimental condensed matter physics.
  • 5+ years of experience leading scientific or technical teams in an industrial R&D environment.
  • Demonstrated success managing teams or research projects involving multidisciplinary collaboration.
  • Strong mentoring skills, with demonstrated success in developing early-career researchers.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong background in experimental methods, such as cryogenic measurement techniques, RF systems, and control electronics.
  • Proficiency in programming for experimental automation and data analysis; experience with Lisp or equivalent is a plus.
  • Outstanding problem-solving skills with a systems level mindset.
  • Bonus if Industry experience in a quantum computing or advanced technology setting.
  • Familiarity with device fabrication processes and cryogenic systems integration.
  • Experience with standard software engineering practices.