Job Summary:The Director, Platform & System will define the strategy for delivering a complete, integrated product that combines PsiQuantum's photonic engine with partner-built systems and components. This role will own the system-level requirements, architecture, delivery model, and cross-subsystem trade-offs required to bring the product from specification through prototype and production. The Director will establish system specifications across form factor, rack design, connectivity, power, thermal performance, monitoring, redundancy, and serviceability, while defining the control and management interface for customer orchestration. This individual will also lead collaboration with OEM, ODM, joint venture, strategic, manufacturing, and test partners to ensure the system is designed for manufacturability, testability, and successful deployment.
Responsibilities:- Own the system requirements spec: radix, form factor, rack height, connector type and count, faceplate, power, thermal, monitoring, redundancy.
- Define the delivery strategy: what we build, what partners build, and how the product comes together.
- Own the thermal and power budget as a constraint on the architecture, not an outcome of it.
- Define the control and management interface strategy for the customer's orchestration layer.
- Identify, evaluate and work with partners - OEM, ODM, JV and strategic - across the system.
- Arbitrate cross-subsystem trades and hold the line when a local optimization costs the system.
- Work with partners, manufacturing and test on DFM and test access from the start, not at the end.
Experience/Qualifications:- 10+ years hardware systems engineering; 3+ directing system architecture for a rack-mounted networking or datacenter product that shipped.
- Direct command of datacenter hardware constraints: rack unit budgets, airflow, power delivery, front-panel density, serviceability, environmental standards.
- Took a system from specification through prototype and a partner or contract-manufacturer build.
- Familiar with datacenter cabling and the realities of high-density front-panel port counts.
- Writes specifications engineering teams can actually build against.
Base pay is one part of the total compensation package. Full-time roles are eligible for equity and benefits. Our compensation ranges reflect the cost of labor across multiple U.S. geographic markets, and we pay based on defined geographic zones. This position may be filled within one of the following U.S. geographic zones, each with its own salary range.
Actual compensation may vary outside of these ranges and is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, relevant education and training, competencies, experience, geographic location, business needs, and internal equity. Your recruiter can share more details about the salary range applicable to your location during the hiring process.
- Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC
- Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC
- Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento
- Zone 4 - Examples include Nashville and Phoenix/Tempe and many remote locations
This position includes the following benefits: competitive health coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) with company match, equity grants, access to financial wellness tools and planning resources, wellness benefits, family support programs, life and disability insurance, paid leave programs, company-designated paid holidays, discretionary time off (DTO), and an end-of-year company shutdown. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements and may vary based on location, role, or employment status. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
The estimated annual base salary range for this role is:
Zone 1
$219,300-$257,700 USD
Zone 2
$197,300-$231,900 USD
Zone 3
$175,500-$206,200 USD
Zone 4
$153,500-$180,400 USD
