Vice President, Systems Engineering
Skills
Computer ScienceBusinessCalibrationCommercialIT StrategyOrganizational CapabilitiesPhysics
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering Physics Computer Science or a related technical discipline
- 15+ years of progressive systems engineering experience leading complex hardware and software product development
- 10+ years leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations delivering integrated technical systems
- Demonstrated success defining system architectures and delivering large-scale products from concept through commercialization
- Extensive experience in architecture requirements management interface definition system integration verification and validation
- Proven ability to build mentor and lead engineering managers and highly technical multidisciplinary teams
- Exceptional communication collaboration and executive leadership skills
- Demonstrated experience driving technical strategy while balancing engineering excellence product delivery schedule and organizational priorities
Nice to have
- Strategic thinker
- Cross-functional leader
- Strong communicator
- Technical governance mindset
- Executive presence
Day to day
- Lead the Systems Engineering organization for D-Wave's Gate Model Quantum Computing program and shape the technical strategy for scalable fault-tolerant systems.
- Define system architecture across the QPU control electronics cryogenic systems calibration software runtime software and cloud services to ensure they operate as one integrated platform.
- Drive requirements management integration verification validation and technical governance while partnering with product hardware software physics manufacturing and operations teams to deliver commercial quantum products.