Staff Project Manager (Quantum Technology)

Location: Sydney, Australia; hybrid

Company

hirify.global builds AI-powered quantum control infrastructure software for quantum computing and quantum sensing, with offices across Australia, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end competitive bids, proposals, government grants, enterprise RFPs, tenders, and customer contract responses.
• Guide multidisciplinary engineering and scientific teams through physical builds, lab integration, environmental testing, field trials, contractual milestones, and final delivery.
• Own project governance, budgets, burn rates, baseline schedules, risk mitigation, contract administration, and expenditure tracking across active R&D contracts.
• Design and embed scalable PMO frameworks, templates, workflows, and operational standards across international hubs.
• Coordinate research, engineering, finance, executive leadership, clients, prime organisations, technical authorities, and program managers.

Requirements

• Up to 8+ years of direct project or program management experience supporting complex technical engineering, deep-tech, or scientific research projects.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary hardware delivery from early breadboard prototyping through lab integration, environmental testing, and field trials.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end responses to external funding opportunities, including government grants, defense or agency solicitations, enterprise RFPs, or competitive tenders.
• Degree in a STEM discipline or equivalent practical technical industry experience.
• Ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into clear, persuasive, high-impact written narratives.
• Experience with project budget architecture, contract administration, expenditure tracking, and financial compliance.
• Hands-on experience developing project management templates, codified workflows, and operational standards for scaling teams.
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management across research, engineering, finance, and executive leadership.

Nice to have

• Direct experience managing government-sponsored engagements.
• Experience working in an international, multi-time-zone team environment.
• Familiarity with commercial quantum technology, hardware, or advanced computing software.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent employment within the Operations department and PMO.
• Hybrid work arrangement in Sydney.
• Flexible approach focused on outcomes over hours.
• Equity potential and competitive benefits.
• High-performance environment focused on turning cutting-edge science into deployable technology.