This role is ideal for a senior architect with strong HPC expertise, systems thinking, customer-facing skills, and a passion for emerging quantum technologies.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Architecture Leadership

· Lead in-depth technical discovery with HPC centers, industry R&D teams, national labs, and enterprise architecture groups.

· Assess existing HPC infrastructures, workloads, data flows, interconnects, and operational constraints.

· Identify hybrid HPC-quantum opportunities and propose strategic architectures aligned with customer objectives.

Hybrid HPC-Quantum Architecture Design

· Architect end-to-end solutions integrating Quandela's photonic quantum processors, control electronics, networks, simulators, cloud services, and on-prem orchestration.

· Define system sizing, performance models, workload placement strategies, and hybrid workflow pipelines.

· Produce high-quality architecture documents, diagrams, and design specifications for decision-makers and technical stakeholders.

Technical Strategy & Advisory

· Serve as a trusted advisor to CTOs, HPC leaders, and scientific teams on hybrid computing strategy, roadmaps, and operational models.

· Recommend integration patterns (Slurm, Kubernetes, PBS), networking designs (InfiniBand, Ethernet), and accelerator strategies.

· Guide customers through infrastructure readiness, security considerations, and operationalization.

Advanced Prototyping, Benchmarks & POCs

· Design and oversee proof-of-concepts, benchmarks, and technical evaluations demonstrating hybrid performance gains.

· Work with HPC and application engineers to build custom workflows and domain-specific demos.

· Support pilot deployments—including on-premise quantum installations and hybrid cloud integrations.

Enablement & Best Practices

· Train HPC teams and scientific users on Quandela's SDK, simulators, cloud platform, and hybrid programming models.

· Produce architecture guides, playbooks, and technical reference materials for customers and partners.

· Contribute to building technical blueprints and reusable architectures for repeatable deployments.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

· Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to feed customer needs into the roadmap.

· Partner with Sales to support technical qualification, RFP responses, and executive discussions.

· Contribute to standards, reference architectures, and interoperability initiatives with ecosystem partners.

Requirements

Technical Skills

· 7+ years of experience in HPC architecture, scientific computing, HPC integration, or large-scale distributed systems.

· Deep understanding of:

o HPC schedulers and orchestration (Slurm, PBS, Kubernetes)

o High-speed interconnects (InfiniBand, Ethernet), MPI, and parallel computing

o Linux systems engineering and cluster networking

o Python for scientific workflows and automation

o Accelerator design and integration (GPUs, AI accelerators, FPGAs)

· Familiarity with quantum computing concepts, hybrid workflows, or quantum SDKs (a strong plus).

Architecture & Customer-Facing Skills

· Proven experience designing end-to-end HPC or hybrid architectures for enterprise or research environments.

· Ability to engage at both high-level architectural strategy and deep technical implementation detail.

· Experience leading:

o Workload assessments

o Architecture design sessions

o Technical workshops

o POCs and performance benchmarks

· Strong technical writing skills (architecture docs, RFP/RFI responses, design proposals).

· Ability to present confidently to technical experts and executive stakeholders.

· Willingness to travel across Europe for workshops, on-site assessments, and deployments.

Soft Skills

· Excellent communication, structure, and clarity—both written and verbal.

· Systems-thinking mindset and strong analytical problem-solving abilities.

· Comfortable working autonomously in exploratory or fast-evolving technical contexts.

· Ability to manage multiple high-impact projects in parallel.

· Curious, proactive, and motivated to learn quantum computing, photonic technologies, and hybrid HPC workflows.

· Able to build trust with demanding technical stakeholders and operate in multidisciplinary teams.

Benefits

· Shape the frontier of hybrid HPC-quantum computing with Europe's photonic quantum pioneer.

· Work closely with global technology, scientific, and industrial partners.

· Join a high-impact, multidisciplinary team where your architectural decisions directly influence the future of quantum adoption.

· Enjoy a flexible, international, innovation-driven environment.

If you want to architect the next generation of hybrid HPC-quantum computing infrastructures and work directly with the organizations pioneering this transformation, we'd love to hear from you.