Chemicals Applications Lead

The role

You will lead work across the chemicals, agrochemicals, and catalysis sectors on the Industry Applications team. You will identify technical opportunities for fault-tolerant quantum computing and turn them into customer programs, product requirements, and application roadmaps.

What you will do

• Lead computational catalysis work across chemicals and agrochemicals
• Translate industrial R&D questions into computational specifications
• Diagnose key sources of uncertainty in catalyst modeling
• Stay current on emerging developments of ML-based simulation and synthesis techniques
• Lead technical discovery and customer engagements with chemical and agrochemical companies
• Build business cases linking FTQC-derived accuracy improvements to R&D outcomes
• Develop technical briefings, proposals, and white papers

Required qualifications

• Ph.D. in computational/theoretical chemistry, chemical engineering, physical chemistry, physics, or a related field
• 3+ years of relevant experience in computational catalysis or industrial catalysis R&D
• Deep expertise in at least one of homogeneous, heterogeneous, electro-, or photocatalysis
• Broad familiarity across reaction mechanisms and catalyst modeling workflows
• Working knowledge of reaction pathways, transition states, free energies, solvation, finite-temperature effects, and experimental validation
• Strong understanding of electronic-structure methods and their limitations in catalysis
• Experience with MD and, ideally, MLIPs
• Experience connecting computational results to real scientific or industrial decisions
• Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional technical programs
• Strong product and commercial judgment

Nice to have

• Experience translating technical capabilities into customer programs, research partnerships, product roadmaps, or government-funded work
• Familiarity with quantum algorithms or hybrid classical-quantum workflows

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. The company uses a silicon photonics architecture to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.