D-Wave

Manager

• 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.

Manager, Quantum Processor Development

Designer

• Create superconducting integrated circuit layouts
• Understand, predict, and design the behaviour of superconducting devices
• Verify designs for correctness and manufacturability
• Document IC designs and communicate with colleagues about them
• Use analytical or numerical models and simulations to represent and understand devices
• Work with custom software infrastructure for superconducting IC design
• Debug challenging technical issues that arise in your own work or those of colleagues
• Model, design, and improve performance of devices on a superconducting quantum processor
• Identify shortcomings in the EDA toolchain and conceive and develop improvements
• Topological and parametric design of novel devices and/or device enhancements
• Understand impact of processor environment and develop mitigation approaches
• Work closely with designers and scientists on the PD team across multiple major project areas

Superconducting IC Designer – Intermediate/Senior/Staff

Software Engineer

• Develop and maintain a homogenized toolchain/design flow for deployment on multiple systems, including servers and local systems
• Extend our in-house electromagnetic simulation toolchain and modeling infrastructure
• Build tools for EDA, including a circuit topology extractor, an at-scale parasitics extractor, chip density homogenization tools, incremental verification tools, and many more
• Evaluate commercial and open-source EDA tools from vendors, compare against requirements, capabilities, and alternatives and integrate or extend them as needed
• Customize tools and workflows to match our specialized fab processes and quantum hardware requirements
• Automate, oversee, and maintain chip documentation and revision workflows
• Collaborate with IC designers, engineers, and scientists
• Contribute to building, extending, and maintaining EDA ecosystem

EDA Tool Developer – Intermediate, Senior or Staff

Director

• Strategic Communication & Investor Engagement
• Craft and deliver compelling narratives that communicate the company’s vision, strategy and financial performance in a way that resonates with both financial and technical audiences
• Lead the planning, coordination and execution of investor conferences and non-deal roadshows, ensuring leadership is prepared for one-on-one as well as group meetings, including briefing materials and Q&A prep
• Maintain ongoing communication with sell-side and buy-side security analysts, proactively following up after earnings releases, investor events and significant announcements to clarify company’s performance and strategy
• Own the creation, enhancement and regular updates of investor presentation content, earnings call scripts, press releases and FAQs, ensuring messaging is accurate, engaging and consistent with company strategy and disclosures
• Represent the company in investor meetings, conferences, non-deal roadshows and earnings calls
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with key investors and analysts while expanding the shareholder base through proactive outreach
• Monitor investor sentiment and feedback to inform messaging and positioning
• Financial Disclosure & Market Intelligence: Lead the quarterly earnings process, including cross-functional coordination, disclosure preparation and call execution
• Provide insights to executive leadership and the Board on peer performance, industry trends, investor behavior and market dynamics
• Track and analyze changes in shareholder composition, analyst coverage and investor perceptions
• Collaborate with Legal and Finance to ensure transparency, accuracy and consistency across all investor communications and public filings
• Internal Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the CEO, CFO and senior leadership to align investor messaging with strategic objectives and corporate developments
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team on capital markets trends, investor expectations and communications best practices
• Work cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Communications and Technical teams to gather insights and align on investor storytelling
• Drive the planning and execution of investor days and internal trainings related to financial messaging and market engagement

Senior Director, Investor Relations

• About the role: We are seeking a visionary Director, Optimization Solutions to spearhead the development of scalable, repeatable solution frameworks that will transform how we deliver quantum optimization solutions to our customers.\n• In this role, you’ll work hand-in-hand with internal teams and external customers to decode complex business challenges, map them to D-Wave’s cutting edge hybrid solvers and quantum systems, and design, prototype, and deploy powerful production ready solutions.\n• Drawing on these insights, you will architect a next generation Optimization Solutions Framework, that includes a set of repeatable approaches and methodologies, that empowers our team to deliver customer value faster, smarter, and at greater scale than ever before.\n• What you\'ll do: Lead the strategic effort to design and implement a scalable Optimization Solutions Framework, creating repeatable approaches that speed and enhance solution delivery for customers.\n• Collaborate across D-Wave, building strong relationships with leaders in Professional Services, Product and Engineering, Sales, and other teams to align on priorities and opportunities.\n• Translate customer and project insights into actionable feedback for product and tool development, helping shape new product features.\n• Deliver clear, compelling presentations and technical content for diverse audiences, from customer stakeholders to internal teams.\n• Partner with customers to cocreate optimization solutions on D-Wave’s quantum systems, guiding them through every stage from concept to production.\n• Drive the successful execution of customer projects, ensuring tangible business value, timely delivery, and exceptional quality.\n• Engage deeply with customers, asking the right questions to uncover underlying challenges, then designing and proposing impactful solutions.\n• Lead collaborative design sessions to gather requirements, brainstorm approaches, mathematically model use cases, and develop hybrid quantum applications.\n• Foster a collaborative and inclusive culture, contributing to a team environment that is supportive, innovative, and fun.\n• About You: Advanced expertise: A Master’s or PhD and 10+ years equivalent experience in Operations Research, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field.\n• Customer-facing excellence: Proven success working directly with external customers (ideally in a consulting role) to identify requirements and consult on solutions to complex business problems.\n• Optimization mastery: Deep knowledge of mathematical modeling and advanced optimization techniques, with a track record of turning complex theories into practical, high-impact applications.\n• Full-lifecycle delivery: Hands-on experience guiding projects from business problem definition and requirements gathering through to solution design, prototyping, and production deployment.\n• Strategic problem-solving: A pragmatic approach to solving real-world challenges, with a strong sense of urgency, ownership, and a clear understanding of what it takes to deliver results.\n• Technical fluency: Proficiency in Python and familiarity with key libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and NetworkX (or equivalent frameworks).\n• Project Delivery: A history of successfully delivering complex projects on time, on scope, and with outstanding quality.\n• A D-Waver\'s DNA: We look at the future and say “why not”; we see possibilities where others see problems or routines. We show the way ahead and are committed to achieving ambitious goals. We practice straight talk and listen generously to each other with empathy. We value different opinions and points of views. We ensure that we connect outside as well as inside to learn from others and inspire each other. We hold ourselves accountable for delivering results. We make decisions & take responsibility so that we can act & support each other.\n• Our Compensation Philosophy is Simple but Powerful: We believe providing D-Wavers with company ownership, competitive pay, and a range of meaningful benefits is the start of creating a culture where people want to give the best they’ve got — not because they’re simply making money, but because they’ve fallen in love with our vision, mission, values, and team.\n• During the interview process, your Recruiter will review our total rewards (base, equity, bonus, perks, benefit, culture). The final offer is determined by your proficiencies within this level.\n• Inclusion: We celebrate diverse perspectives to drive innovation in our pursuit. Our employees range from distinguished domain experts with decades of experience in their respective fields, to bright and motivated graduates eager to make their mark.\n• Our diverse and innovative team will make you feel appreciated, supported and empower your career growth at D-Wave.\n• The Fine Print: No 3rd party candidates will be accepted It is D-Wave Systems Inc. policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/provincial, local law.\n• The pay range for this role is: 144,340 - 268,060 USD per year ( Remote )\n• Apply now Sales and Marketing Remote (United States)

Manager, Quantum Processor Development

Superconducting IC Designer – Intermediate/Senior/Staff

EDA Tool Developer – Intermediate, Senior or Staff

Senior Director, Investor Relations

Director Optimization Solutions