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# Senior Digital System Architect

- **Company:** Psiquantum, Corp.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $176,500.0 - $207,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Digital Electronics, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Digital Technology, Distributed Systems, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Python (Programming Language), Systems Architecture, SystemVerilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87021401/1

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related discipline.
 * 5+ years of relevant work in digital design.
 * Knowledge of SystemVerilog (or VHDL) for design and simulation.
 * Experience working with FPGAs (Xilinx preferred) and associated tooling.
 * Strong critical thinking skills to devise creative and analytical approaches to solving novel, loosely-defined complex problems.
 * Team player with an ability to work effectively across departments and time-zones.
 * Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage a variety of audiences.
 * Experienced Python programmer who strives to write clear code in the context of a small team of contributors.
 * Pro-active with the ability to work independently with limited direction, in a fast-moving start-up environment nice-to-have:
 * Distributed system experience: involving event correlation from multiple sources, under real-time constraints.
 * Experience with High Level Synthesis tools (e.g. Xilinx Vitis).
 * Experience with Python for verification (Cocotb).
 * Knowledge of photonics and linear optics is a plus.

## Description

We are looking for a digital hardware system architect to join our System-Architecture team. You will work in a multi-technology environment and will contribute to shaping and defining the digital-logic systems which drive our photonic quantum computer., * Gather and translate high-level abstract requirements into concrete hardware requirements.

 * Devise and implement low-latency algorithms and methods to solve various time-critical tasks that take place in the data-plane of an optical quantum computer.
 * Work with other digital-design experts to integrate algorithms into FPGAs.
 * Collaborate closely with physicists and digital designers to arbitrate design choices and optimize designs to meet algorithmic performance while matching latency, throughput and footprint constraints.
 * Write requirements and documentation.
 * Implement cycle-accurate Python models to be integrated in discrete-time-event simulations.
 * Implement SystemVerilog implementations matching Python models.
 * Write behavioral tests for implementations in Python.