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title: 'Field Applications Engineer at Equal1'
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# Field Applications Engineer at Equal1

- **Company:** Equal1
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/equal1/1a373fd7-cce9-4f89-80fe-c92768c46c33

## Job description

We are seeking an exceptional, client-facing Field Applications Engineer to join our team. Driven by commercial impact, you will partner directly with enterprise clients to architect, build, and deploy technical solutions leveraging Equal1’s silicon spin QPUs. This role requires outstanding communication skills to bridge complex technical systems with high-stakes enterprise execution. The Field Applications department is the commercial strike team engineered for high-stakes execution. We deliver quantum computing to the market by uniting software systems integration, scientific formulation, and compelling technical storytelling to close enterprise deals. Operating at the intersection of business, quantum information science, and software / hardware / systems engineering, our team serves as the vital bridge between internal R&D teams, business partners, external collaborators, and clients.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for commercial engagements. Establish technical credibility with client executives and engineering teams during discovery, pre-sales, through sale and delivery.
- Deliver live technical pitches, represent the company at industry events / conferences, and run on-site or remote hardware and software demonstrations.
- Assess customer infrastructure and technical requirements, understand Equal1’s system capabilities, and act as a bridge between customers and internal engineering teams to architect suitable solutions and support deployment planning.
- Support virtualization, system services, and commissioning logistics for on-prem system deployments.
- Provide project management and operational support for client delivery, and partner evaluation for commercial integrations.
- Provide ongoing technical support, system administration, and troubleshooting for customer implementations and partner systems.
- Support development of whitepapers, use cases, data sheets, and executive presentations. Contribute technical input in script production, video assets, and media content to elevate product and company visibility.
- Act as the strategic interface between commercial strategy and internal R&D.

## Experience and Qualifications

Required

- Degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- 2–4 years of relevant work experience. Candidates holding a PhD are eligible to waive up to 2 years of required experience depending on relevance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of classical computational theory.
- Advanced knowledge of at least one applicable domain such as classical algorithms, scientific programming / computational mathematics, AI / ML, or HPC.
- Strong software engineering skills.
- Strong knowledge of linear algebra fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Proficiency with virtual environments, virtualization, and software packaging.
- Fluency in Linux and Git.
- Exceptional client-facing communication skills with a natural ability to translate dense technical subjects into compelling value propositions.
- Comfortable contributing where roles blend technical execution, relationship building, and public presentation.
- Proven ability to add value across traditional boundaries, working seamlessly alongside engineers and business professionals.

Desired

- Familiarity with Electrical, Computer, or Systems Engineering concepts.
- Experience developing client-focused quantum solutions.
- Proficiency in a high-performance / mathematical programming language or framework (e.g. C/C++, Rust, CUDA, Julia, PyTorch, TensorFlow).

## 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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