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title: 'Technical Program Manager – Cryomechanical & Quantum System Integration at Equal1'
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# Technical Program Manager – Cryomechanical & Quantum System Integration at Equal1

- **Company:** Equal1
- **Location:** California
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/equal1/017d7853-b77a-4cbd-8718-ac11d28ebdfe

## Job description

We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to support the delivery of Equal1’s cryomechanical and quantum system integration roadmap. In this role, you will manage the research, development, prototype production, and delivery of our in-house cryogenic cooler technology and integrated quantum computing systems.

This is a cross-functional role requiring strong technical program management experience, excellent organisational skills, and a solid understanding of complex scientific, semiconductor, or advanced engineering equipment development. You will work with internal teams, suppliers, and contract manufacturing partners to ensure prototypes are delivered on time, on budget, and ready for early customer deployments.

## MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead planning and execution of cryomechanical and quantum system integration programs, from R&D through prototype delivery.
- Build and maintain program plans, including timelines, owners, dependencies, critical paths, budgets, and deliverables.
- Conduct critical path analysis, identify bottlenecks, communicate risks, and help resolve resource conflicts.
- Coordinate work across hardware, cryomechanical, systems engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
- Support supply chain and component management, including long-lead items, supplier dependencies, BOM readiness, and build status.
- Support BOM, PLM, documentation, change control, and configuration management activities.
- Support New Product Introduction (NPI), production ramp, and customer support readiness.
- Coordinate certification activities for relevant equipment, including FCC, CE, UL, and other applicable requirements.
- Provide clear reporting on program status, risks, decisions required, and overall delivery health.

## EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Required

- 10+ years’ experience in technical program management within complex hardware, semiconductor, scientific equipment, cryogenic systems, or advanced engineering environments.
- Strong understanding of scientific and/or semiconductor equipment assembly, manufacturing, and integration processes.
- Experience with mechanical and electrical manufacturing processes, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
- Experience with supply chain and component management, BOM structures, PLM systems, and documentation control.
- Experience with NPI, production ramp, and customer support readiness.
- Highly organised, structured, and able to coordinate work across multiple teams, suppliers, timelines, and dependencies.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive clarity, accountability, and risk resolution in a fast-paced technical environment.

Desired

- Experience with cryogenic systems, quantum hardware, scientific instrumentation, or semiconductor process/equipment development.
- Experience managing certification processes for complex equipment, including FCC, CE, UL, or equivalent requirements.
- Experience working with international suppliers, outsourced manufacturing partners, and early customer deployments.

## 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)

## Other roles at Equal1

- [Cryogenic Systems Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/cryogenic-systems-engineer-equal1-california-h19kerxqkygn) — California
- [Junior Mechanical CAD Engineer / Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/junior-mechanical-cad-engineer-designer-equal1-california-a9xm7xbwt0ze) — California
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- [Head of People](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-people-equal1-dublin-8gn89h2vb4gq) — Dublin, Ireland
- [Quantum Error Correction Lead / Senior Quantum Error Correction Scientist](https://feeny.ai/job/quantum-error-correction-lead-senior-quantum-error-correction-scientist-equal1-qvbyxmxdsptz) — Dublin, Ireland
- [Software Stack / Framework Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/software-stack-framework-engineer-equal1-timisoara-qk5b0hh4385x) — Timișoara, Romania
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