About this role
Job Responsibilities
System Definition & Requirements Management
- Develop and maintain the functional and physical decomposition of Atom’s quantum computing systems, subsystems, and critical technologies.
- Contribute to and maintain the requirements baseline, traceability matrices, and verification plans using industry standard tools
- Translate scientific objectives into verifiable system and subsystem performance requirements
- Manage change control processes for evolving architectures and requirements.
System Architecture & Design Integration
- Define and manage system performance budgets across fidelity, timing, throughput, reliability, power, space and thermal performance.
- Develop and maintain system-level design documentation and interface control documents (ICDs)
- Coordinate with modeling and simulation teams to evaluate performance trade-offs and scalability of quantum system architectures.
Risk Management & Technical Planning
- Identify, quantify, and track technical risks, opportunities, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigations
- Support development of risk registers and FMEA/FMECA for design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, MRR, SIR, ORR)
- Contribute to the ongoing development of Atom Computing’s Systems Engineering Management Plan.
Integration, Verification, and Validation (IV&V)
- Develop and coordinate IV&V plans, linking test protocols to system requirements
- Oversee system-level test protocols with Quantum Engineering & Theory
- Track verification status, test evidence, limitations, and requirements closure
- Participate in system integration reviews and readiness assessments
Collaboration & Communication
- Act as technical liaison between Theory, Quantum Engineering, Hardware, Software, Controls, and Optical Engineering
- Communicate system-level technical status, risks, decisions, and dependencies to quantum engineering, engineering and program leadership.
- Support customer interactions, including government program reviews, technical interchange meetings, and milestone reporting.
- Prepare and present system architecture, requirements, risk, integration, and verification artifacts for internal and external design reviews.
Experience & Education
- BS or higher in Systems Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering or a related field
- 2+ years of systems engineering experience in complex, multidisciplinary R&D or production environments (quantum, aerospace, defense, advanced computing, or similar)
Qualifications
Required
- Proven ability to lead requirements development, interface control, and V&V planning across engineering and science disciplines
- Experience with systems engineering tools, configuration management systems, and engineering change control practices.
- Strong understanding of system lifecycle processes, integration, verification, and technical reviews.
- Demonstrated experience with risk management frameworks
Preferred
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in engineering, physics, or a related discipline
- Familiarity with quantum computing, atomic, and optical (AMO) physics, control system integration, or FPGA/ASIC development cycles.
- Experience preparing and presenting SRR/PDR/CDR/TRR/SIR/ORR artifacts
- Knowledge of reliability engineering, fault-tolerant architectures, and data-driven verification.
- Experience supporting government-funded research or procurement programs (DoD, DoE, DoC, DARPA)