QBoltz is building the world’s most powerful optical computer for quantum-inspired algorithms.

We are an interdisciplinary team of physicists and engineers who believe there should be a better way to compute the world’s hardest problems.

Founders
Erik Shipton, Ph.D. Cofounder, CEO & CTO

Photonic systems architect and co-inventor of the QBoltz architecture. Built display and sensing optics at Meta and Google AR/VR; previously General Atomics and GTRI.

Steve Buckley, Ph.D. Cofounder, COO

Founded Photon Machines, acquired by Teledyne. Two decades taking laser and photonic instruments from lab bench to shipping product.

Jimmy Kan, Ph.D. Cofounder, CSO

Investment Partner at Anzu Partners with board seats across 8+ deep-tech companies. Device physicist by training.

Open roles

Do not see your role? We hire for the person, not the listing. Send whatever best shows your work, a paper, a repo, a build log, to .

How we hire
  1. A person reads everything. No screening software. We look at what you have built, not just where you have been.
  2. One technical conversation. Real problems from our bench, not puzzles.
  3. Meet the team. A focused session with the people you would work with, then lunch with the founders.
  4. Fast decisions. When we know, you will know, usually within days rather than weeks.
What we offer

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If you have built something hard in optics, embedded systems, or optimization, write to us and tell us about it.

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