Technical Product Manager-Hardware Engineering

About the role

We are building quantum computing systems that push the boundary of what is physically possible. Doing so requires a rare combination of scientific depth, engineering rigor, and operational maturity. Our Quantum Control Platform sits at the heart of this effort, translating physics breakthroughs into executable engineering across hardware, software, optics, embedded systems, and automation. As we scale, we are looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to serve as the operational backbone between our quantum physics research team and our multi-disciplinary engineering organization. This is not a traditional software product role. You will operate at the intersection of complex hardware development and modern agile delivery, making them work together in a physics-constrained environment.

Requirements

• Translation & Traceability: Work directly with quantum physicists to extract scientific intent and translate them into structured, executable engineering requirements. Build full traceable requirement hierarchies from top-level physics goals down to subsystem specifications. Cover domains including control electronics, embedded systems, optics, calibration workflows, and automation. Define clear acceptance criteria and validation plans at every level. Ensure no critical requirement lives informally in someone’s head.
• Documentation Discipline & Governance: Own and elevate the requirements process, not just participate in it. Define standardized requirement templates, establish definition-of-ready and definition-of-done criteria, implement milestone readiness frameworks, institutionalize documentation governance within Jira and Confluence, ensure proper decomposition, traceability, ownership, and auditability. Introduce structure without bureaucracy — building systems that accelerate execution rather than slow it down.
• Agile Delivery Partnership: Structure requirements so they are consumable by agile hardware and software teams. Decompose physics goals into Jira epics and stories while preserving validation rigor. Participate fluently in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives. Operate effectively in hybrid delivery environments where hardware constraints meet agile cadence.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Process Maturity: Align scientists, hardware engineers, and software engineers around shared execution frameworks. Translate between research language and engineering execution models in real time. Surfacing unstated assumptions in scientific requirements. Challenge habits constructively. Raise the overall maturity of technical product management across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8–15+ years of experience in technical product management within deep-tech, hardware-centric, multi-disciplinary environments.
• Background in industries where precision and traceability are non-negotiable, such as: Photonics and optical systems, Lidar and sensing, Defense and aerospace with photonics or directed energy programs, Scientific instrumentation, Semiconductor capital equipment, Fusion energy, advanced aerospace, or modern defense companies.
• Personally built requirements governance frameworks, defined acceptance criteria and validation plans across complex systems, strong technical grounding in physics, electrical engineering, optics, or related fields, and the ability to engage meaningfully with PhD-level scientists and systems engineers.

Skills

• Strong technical grounding in physics, electrical engineering, optics, or related fields.
• Ability to engage meaningfully with PhD-level scientists and systems engineers.
• Direct experience with quantum computing hardware or quantum software stacks.
• Familiarity with neutral atom systems.
• Experience with optical system integration, laser control, or free-space beam control.
• Familiarity with calibration workflows, qubit characterization, or QPU benchmarking.
• Experience building or scaling a technical product management function.

Benefits

We are committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Pay

$150,000 to $190,000

Schedule

On-site in Boston