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title: 'DevOps / Platform Engineer at Equal1'
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# DevOps / Platform Engineer at Equal1

- **Company:** Equal1
- **Location:** Timișoara, Romania
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/equal1/fe9dd9d3-0fb0-42c1-9a3d-26cdf58e3442

## Job description

Equal1 is building silicon-based quantum computers, integrating spin qubits and cryo-CMOS control electronics on standard semiconductor processes. We are looking for a DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our team in Timișoara and build infrastructure for the whole company, across all our sites, with a focus on our full-stack software framework and our measurement activities. You will work closely with our IT Manager from day one. Over time, the role will also support our SoC / hardware modeling team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

- Own CI/CD, build and release pipelines for the quantum software stack (Python, C/C++), including simulator and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Automate the flow of data from lab instruments and measurement setups into central storage, with experiment tracking and traceability.
- Design data infrastructure that scales across sites: storage, backup, retention and access policies.
- Manage lab and engineering compute as code, and run observability (logging, metrics, alerting) for internal services.
- Progressively support the SoC / HW modeling team with simulation compute, job scheduling, license servers and regression pipelines.
- Evaluate and, if pursued, build GPU infrastructure for ML / LLM training and serving.
- Work with the IT Manager on identity, networking, security and cloud accounts, so DevOps and IT form one coherent setup.

## Experience and Qualifications

Required:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in DevOps, platform, SRE or build/release engineering.
- Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash, Python).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins), Docker and Kubernetes or similar.
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) across on-premises and cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP).
- Solid networking and security fundamentals.
- Fluent English and the ability to work with physicists, hardware and software engineers.

Desired:

- Experience with HPC, EDA or scientific computing environments (Slurm, license servers).
- Lab automation or data acquisition (QCoDeS, PyVISA) and experiment tracking (ClearML, MLflow).
- Data engineering (object storage, HDF5/Parquet, PostgreSQL) or GPU / ML infrastructure.

If you want to build the platform behind a quantum computer from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.

## About Equal1

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Equal1 builds the world's first rack-mounted silicon quantum computers designed to deploy alongside classical CPUs and GPUs in standard data center infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, last raised $60M in January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Dublin 4, Ireland (with offices in Fremont, CA; Delft, Netherlands; Sherbrooke, Canada; Timișoara, Romania)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Dirk Leipold (President & Co-Founder), R. Bogdan Staszewski (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Quantum Computing / Nanotechnology / High-Performance Computing
- **Target Customers**: Enterprise and government data centers, HPC clusters, AI labs, defense and aerospace organizations (current customer includes the European Space Agency)
- **Mission Statement**: "Quantum will not deliver from the lab. It delivers when it becomes deployable: infrastructure that can be bought, run, scaled and trusted inside high-performance compute environments."

## Products & Services
- **Equal1 RacQ**: A rack-mounted silicon quantum computer that fits into a standard server rack with standard power and cooling. It runs alongside existing CPU/GPU infrastructure and supports hybrid quantum-classical workloads. Currently shipping to customers.
- **UnityQ**: The silicon quantum processor (QSoC - Quantum System-on-Chip) built in standard CMOS foundries. Each generation adds more qubits, higher fidelity, and exponential compute within the same rack footprint.
- **Quantum Solutions**: Capabilities for optimization (logistics, portfolio, scheduling), simulation (molecular systems, materials science), Monte Carlo (risk, pricing, modeling), and Quantum AI (training paths beyond classical scaling).

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: $106.5M across 12 rounds (last round: $60M in January 2026 led by Ireland Strategic Investment Fund)
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors**: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Matterwave Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, Enterprise Ireland, Elkstone Partners, EIC Fund
- **Key Partnership**: Signed a deal with **Nvidia** (September 2024) for hybrid supercomputer and quantum systems
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - RacQ already shipping to customers including the **European Space Agency**
  - Headcount growing 15.6% YoY (38 employees as of mid-2026)
  - Opened Dutch lab in 2024, partnered with TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)
  - 34 patents filed in quantum information science
  - Multiple generations of silicon already proven

## Competitive Advantages
- **Silicon CMOS Advantage**: Unlike other qubit modalities (superconducting, ion trap, photonic) that require exotic manufacturing, Equal1 builds in standard silicon foundries — making their chips manufacturable, deployable, and upgradeable at scale.
- **Rack-Mounted Form Factor**: The only quantum computer that fits in a standard data center rack with standard power and cooling — no cryogenic infrastructure or dedicated quantum facility required.
- **Deployed Today, Not "Soon"**: RacQ is already shipping to paying customers, including a major space agency.
- **Nvidia Partnership**: Direct integration with the dominant AI/HPC ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling qubit count and fidelity with each UnityQ processor generation
- Deepening hybrid quantum-classical compute integration with Nvidia
- Expanding commercial deployments into optimization, simulation, and AI workloads
- Building out the software stack and framework engineering team
- Growing headcount in engineering, quantum error correction, device physics, and software roles

## Why Work Here
- **Work Environment**: "Hybrid by default" — employees work across offices in Ireland, Netherlands, US, Canada, and Romania
- **Culture**: Rated 5.0/5.0 on employer review sites (Work-Life: 5.0, Compensation: 5.0, Culture: 5.0, Career: 5.0)
- **Team**: Small (~38 people), highly technical (26% technical, 15% research), with talent from Intel (5 alumni), University College Dublin (7), TNO, Qualcomm, and Movidius
- **Impact**: You'd be building deployable quantum infrastructure that's already shipping — not just doing research
- **Career Growth**: Open roles include VP of Quantum Software Engineering, Quantum Error Correction Lead, Senior Verification Engineer, Spin Qubit Calibration Engineer — indicating serious scaling of the engineering team
- **Notable**: Employees have gone on to Stanford, PsiQuantum, Qualcomm — showing the team is deeply embedded in the quantum ecosystem

## Sources
1. [equal1.com](https://www.equal1.com/)
2. [equal1.com/company](https://www.equal1.com/company)
3. [LinkedIn - Equal1](https://www.linkedin.com/company/equal1)
4. [CB Insights - Equal1](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/equal1labs)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com/equal1](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/equal1)

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