Psiquantum
Director, Datacenter System Architecture
Palo Alto, California. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Director, Platform & System will define the strategy for delivering an integrated product combining a photonic engine with partner-built systems. This person will own system-level requirements, architecture, and delivery models from specification through production.
What you will do
- Own the system requirements spec including radix, form factor, rack height, connector type, power, thermal, monitoring, and redundancy
- Define the delivery strategy for what is built in-house versus by partners
- Own the thermal and power budget as a constraint on the architecture
- Define the control and management interface strategy for the customer orchestration layer
- Identify, evaluate and work with OEM, ODM, JV and strategic partners
- Arbitrate cross-subsystem trades
- Work with partners, manufacturing and test on DFM and test access
Required qualifications
- 10+ years hardware systems engineering
- 3+ years directing system architecture for a rack-mounted networking or datacenter product that shipped
- Direct command of datacenter hardware constraints: rack unit budgets, airflow, power delivery, front-panel density, serviceability, environmental standards
- Experience taking a system from specification through prototype and a partner or contract-manufacturer build
- Familiarity with datacenter cabling and high-density front-panel port counts
- Ability to write specifications engineering teams can build against
Benefits
- competitive health coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) with company match
- equity grants
- access to financial wellness tools and planning resources
- wellness benefits
- family support programs
- life and disability insurance
- paid leave programs
- company-designated paid holidays
- discretionary time off (DTO)
- end-of-year company shutdown
About the company
PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers using an architecture based on silicon photonics. The company is building utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago.