Director, Hardware Signals

**Description**:
Photonic is looking for a strategic and results-driven hardware leader passionate about advancing innovation.

In this role, you will lead a highly collaborative and multi-disciplinary team of managers, team leads and engineers. Your responsibilities include management and technical leadership of Photonic’s design and engineering of RF, mixed signal, electro-optic, embedded and high-speed control solutions. Solutions integrate boards, firmware, boxes, and cable harnesses into data-center racks meeting stringent high-availability, high-reliability requirements.

**Please include a cover letter with your resume (in one file) describing how you would be a great fit at Photonic and what attributes you could bring to our growing team.**

**WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO**:
**Technical Leadership**
- Lead team of RF, mixed signal, opto-electronic, firmware, and high-speed controls engineers to synthesize department’s development roadmap.
- Lead electrical and optical engineering teams to establish expertise across competences, including design, layout, analysis, behavioural models and environmental compatibility testing
- Foster collaboration between Team Leads and Project Management to drive execution of department’s deliverables.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to align roadmap with corporate objectives.

**Development Process**
- Ensure projects have the necessary resources, infrastructure, and processes to succeed.
- Enhance workflows and methodologies to accelerate development to meet product cadence.
- Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and optimize development productivity.
- Collaborate with specialist contract manufacturer partners to deliver and engineer complex sub-assemblies.
- Create and mature work instructions for assembly and service sequences in collaboration with R&D Operations team.

**Process Optimization & Compliance**
- Maintain departmental process workflow and refine with learnings to drive continuous improvement.
- Ensure adherence to departmental workflow and project management practices.
- Stimulate intellectual property development and secure protection
- Identify high-value digital transformation initiatives to enhance data-driven decision-making and use of AI.

**Financial & Resource Management**
- Oversee budgeting, financial planning, and cost management for department functions.
- Optimize resource allocation to balance innovation with fiscal responsibility.

**People & Culture Development**
- Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing technical teams.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Identify training opportunities to enhance employee skills and productivity.

**WHAT YOU BRING TO OUR TEAM**:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Electronics, or a related field.
- 10+ years of leadership experience in RF engineering, high speed FPGA, optics, and firmware, preferably within an R&D, technology, or innovation-driven environment.
- Proven track record of leading innovative, product-development teams resulting in high volume production, particularly those implementing leading-edge integrated circuit solutions.
- Expertise in design process methodologies (e.g., simulation, progressive prototypes, test, documentation, and issue tracking systems like JIRA).
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry certification practices.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience working with technology partners - supply chain providers and customers.
- Familiarity with intellectual property management and technology commercialization.
- Experience in a high-growth or startup environment.

**WHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH US**:

- Get involved with a quantum startup company set to redefine computing
- Work closely with some of the brightest innovators in quantum technologies
- Enjoy a fast-paced and fun environment where you can try new things while solving innovative challenges every day
- Inclusive company culture
- Competitive salary, benefits (including life insurance, extended health, dental, long term disability, and a flexible spending account), and potential upside

**About Photonic**:
Based in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, Photonic is at the forefront of designing next-generation quantum technologies in silicon. Photonic's breakthrough results with silicon have upended many conventional assumptions in quantum computing. With record-setting qubit performance, telecom networking, and silicon’s manufacturing scale, Photonic’s silicon spin qubits materialize solutions for previously intractable problems -and unlock solutions for tomorrow’s problem sets.