Psiquantum
Senior Cryogenic Business Development & Program Manager
Palo Alto, California. Posted 2 days ago
The role
This person will turn cryogenic capabilities into customer programs and manage them from first hardware through qualification into production. They will work with customers to identify problems in interconnect, cooling density, and next-generation architecture.
What you will do
- Identify and develop opportunities where cryogenic capabilities solve AI data center problems
- Convert opportunities into programs including scope, phase structure, SOWs, acceptance criteria and pricing
- Manage programs end to end with customer and internal teams
- Coordinate joint demonstrations and qualification gates across internal engineering, customer deliverables and external suppliers
Required qualifications
- 10+ years spanning business development and program management for datacenter, networking or complex hardware systems
- 3+ years running customer-funded co-development or NPI programs through qualification into production
- Commercial fluency in co-development structures: SOWs, phased POs, acceptance gates, production frameworks, take-or-pay and capacity reservation terms
- Technically credible on thermal budgets, qualification criteria and schedule risk
- Experience coordinating across a customer, contract fabricators and long-lead suppliers simultaneously
- Comfort developing programs for a product that is still being defined
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 silicon photonics architecture. The company is building utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago.