Senior/Staff Electro-Optic Hardware Design Engineer

The role

This engineer will own the detailed design, integration, and qualification of electro-optic hardware modules. You will turn system requirements into rack-mountable or blade-format products containing optical and electro-optic subassemblies.

What you will do

• Own detailed design and integration of electro-optic modules.
• Convert system and subsystem requirements into engineering specifications and documentation.
• Lead design trade studies across optical performance, noise, stability, and reliability.
• Design controlled experiments and analyze data to make technical decisions.
• Plan and execute module bring-up, characterization, and environmental testing.
• Author verification and acceptance requirements, test plans, and reports.
• Lead EVT and DVT for internal and vendor-developed hardware.
• Oversee internal design reviews and configuration control.
• Oversee technical collaboration with contract manufacturers and specialist vendors.
• Partner with manufacturing and operations to implement design-for-manufacture and design-for-test strategies.

Required qualifications

• B.S. or higher in electrical engineering, optical engineering, physics, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
• Substantial relevant industry experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of detailed electro-optic or opto-mechanical hardware design through prototype, verification, qualification, and manufacturing release.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of fiber-optic components and subsystems.
• Experience integrating optical, analog and digital electronics, thermal management, mechanical packaging, connectors, power distribution, communications, and safety features.
• Proficiency developing requirements, interface-control documentation, optical and electrical budgets, verification matrices, test plans, procedures, acceptance criteria, and formal test reports.
• Strong experimental judgment including test design, instrumentation, measurement uncertainty, and data analysis.
• Experience leading EVT/DVT, hardware bring-up, structured debugging, failure analysis, root-cause investigation, and corrective-action closure.
• Proven ability to direct vendors and contract manufacturers.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-power or low-noise optical amplification, photonic calibration, metrology, quantum photonics, or precision instrumentation.
• Familiarity with laser and electrical safety, EMI/EMC, thermal and environmental qualification, reliability methods, and applicable product-compliance practices.
• Experience creating automated laboratory or production test systems using Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, or similar tools.
• Working knowledge of statistical tolerance analysis, measurement-system analysis, design of experiments, reliability growth, and supplier quality methods.
• Experience transferring low-volume, high-complexity hardware into repeatable production and supporting sustaining engineering or field failure analysis.

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 a silicon photonics architecture. The company is building utility-scale quantum computers in locations including Brisbane, Australia and Chicago.