Quantum Hardware Architect (Quantum AI)

Location: Ann Arbor, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global Technologies is building quantum-accelerated AI servers that combine multiple qubit types in fault-tolerant architectures to improve the speed, scalability, and affordability of AI training and inference.

What you will do

• Develop theoretical and numerical models of qubit devices, gate operations, and physical-layer processes.
• Design and evaluate quantum system architectures under hardware constraints and realistic noise models.
• Translate device-level physics into architecture requirements and architecture goals into device specifications.
• Determine error budgets and gate-fidelity requirements for architecture-level targets.
• Build simulation and modeling tools for system design, performance analysis, and roadmap planning.
• Lead research projects and collaborate with experimental and theoretical physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and the hardware team.

Requirements

• PhD in physics, applied physics, computer science, electrical engineering, or a similar field.
• 5–10 years of experience in quantum-computing hardware theory and modeling.
• Publications in quantum device physics, quantum architecture, or related fields.
• Strong programming skills in a scientific-computing environment.
• Track record of successful cross-team collaboration and strong written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience translating advanced R&D into commercial products or roadmap milestones.
• Experience modeling multiple or heterogeneous qubit platforms.
• Experience translating abstract models into hardware-aware protocols.
• Experience bridging theory and experiment on real quantum hardware.
• Familiarity with quantum error correction and fault-tolerant architecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Access to industrial-scale compute and hardware resources with the intellectual freedom of an academic environment.
• Visa sponsorship support may be available.
• Salary significantly above standard academic postdoctoral rates.
• Company-sponsored health coverage for employees and families.
• Company offsites, casual crew socials, and unlimited PTO.