Senior Engineer, System Automation (Subsystems)

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Senior Engineer, System Automation (Subsystems) in USA new

PsiQuantum
Full time
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USA
11/10/2026
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Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities

Design subsystem control abstractions within the existing System Automation framework.
Develop reusable Python APIs, functions, and automation routines for specified subsystem functionality and operating workflows.
Maintain readable, tested, documented, and maintainable hardware-control code aligned with framework patterns.
Work with design leads and engineers to understand manual workflows, operating conditions, constraints, and software pain points.
Translate hardware workflow needs into software requirements, examples, reusable routines, tests, and documentation.
Debug automation issues involving Python code, hardware interfaces, instruments, data acquisition, or test setups.
Contribute to operating procedures and convert manual steps into reliable automated routines.
Identify automation needs, communicate requirements and tradeoffs, and support new hardware generations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
At least 3 years of software engineering experience in hardware, scientific, automation, test, embedded, control, or laboratory systems.
Strong Python software engineering skills and the ability to write readable, tested, and maintainable software.
Experience building APIs, automation workflows, instrument-control code, test code, or hardware-control software for complex systems.
Experience working in existing software frameworks, following design patterns, participating in code reviews, and incorporating feedback.
Ability to translate ambiguous hardware workflows into software requirements, reusable routines, tests, documentation, and examples.
Strong cross-functional communication and documentation skills.
Preferred: hands-on experience with photonic, optical, laser, RF, electronic, or electro-optic hardware.
Preferred: familiarity with configuration files, SQL, data models, logs, dashboards, topology-aware systems, control-system state models, databases, observability tools, orchestration tools, internal APIs, or data acquisition systems.
Preferred: experience with calibration, validation, commissioning, lab automation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or experimental control systems.

Benefits

Health coverage for employees and dependents, 401(k) with company match, equity grants, financial wellness resources, wellness benefits, family support programs, life and disability insurance, paid leave, company-designated holidays, discretionary time off, and an end-of-year company shutdown.
Benefits may have eligibility requirements and vary by location, role, or employment status.
The role may be filled in U.S. geographic Zones 1–4, including many remote locations in Zone 4.

Salary: $141k - $237k/yr

PsiQuantum

PsiQuantum builds photonic quantum computers designed to achieve fault-tolerant, million‑qubit scale, and develops algorithms and software for commercial use. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, and in 2024 announced government-funded projects to build utility-scale systems ...

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