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Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. is a leading Canadian company specializing in photonic quantum hardware, aiming to make quantum computing accessible through innovative software and research.

Toronto, Ontario

Computer Hardware Manufacturing
201–500 people

About

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited is a Canadian photonic quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Xanadu is building fault-tolerant quantum computers using light, with systems designed to compute at room temperature. Founded in 2016, Xanadu is now backed by more than $500 million USD in funding, Xanadu develops both hardware and software, including PennyLane, its open-source quantum computing platform. Xanadu is the first pure-play photonic quantum computing company to list on public markets (Nasdaq/TSX: XNDU) and is recognized globally for its breakthroughs in scalable quantum technologies. Xanadu is bringing together exceptional minds from around the world to build something extraordinary. Learn more at xanadu.ai

Open positions

Senior Data Scientist - Decision Intelligence

On-site · Toronto

Lead the vision and development of a cross-domain decision intelligence platform that integrates data from Xanadu’s research and operations. Apply AI and machine learning to uncover patterns, correlations, and anomalies, while guiding technical contributors and iterating on the product based on user feedback.

Director, Total Rewards

On-site · Toronto

Lead the strategy and day-to-day delivery of global compensation, equity, executive rewards, and benefits programs, including compensation cycles, incentive design, and equity administration. Advise senior leaders and support Compensation Committee matters while building scalable governance, analytics, systems, and processes for a public company.

Business Development Lead

On-site · Toronto

Develop commercial opportunities and partnerships for Xanadu’s photonic quantum hardware and PennyLane, including enterprise sales, pilot projects, grants, and strategic agreements. Collaborate with technical and product teams to communicate business value, build ecosystem alliances, track market developments, and represent Xanadu at industry conferences.

Senior Network Engineer

On-site · Toronto

Own and secure the enterprise network across multiple vendors, automating deployment, configuration, testing, and maintenance of network devices and core DNS/DHCP services. Manage firewall policies, VPNs, segmentation, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, documentation, and end-user network projects.

Staff Control Systems Architect - Photonic Quantum Computing

On-site · Toronto

Own the central control-system architecture for future fault-tolerant photonic quantum computers, including real-time feedback, locking, feedforward, calibration, timing, and data flow. Define and maintain cross-team interfaces and requirements, guide engineering teams, manage system-wide tradeoffs and risks, and mentor engineers.

Data Center Infrastructure Engineer

On-site · Toronto

Design and size rack-scale infrastructure for quantum computers, including cooling distribution units, power distribution units, manifolds, and liquid-cooling loops. Own the mechanical design and integration of subsystem modules, bridging facility-level infrastructure with chassis-level packaging while addressing thermal performance, vibration control, and complex assembly requirements.

Cybersecurity Engineer

On-site · Toronto

Triage alerts and respond to cybersecurity incidents, document findings, follow up on remediation, and educate employees on security policies. Improve security across infrastructure and applications by automating vulnerability patching, updating policies, supporting disaster recovery exercises, and evaluating security solutions with internal teams.

Process Integration Engineer

On-site · Toronto

Develop and optimize fabrication processes for integrated photonic devices made from crystalline electro-optic materials, including thin-film lithium niobate, and independently manage wafer lots at foundry partners. Design process improvement experiments, define metrology and failure analysis plans, analyze results, and collaborate with internal and external engineering teams to improve device performance.

Senior Electrical/Hardware Engineer

On-site · Toronto

Design, develop, test, optimize, and debug custom electronic boards and modules for photonic quantum computers. Contribute to the analog and digital control architecture that interfaces with noise-sensitive optoelectronic instruments and acquires data from quantum photonic devices.

System Software Developer - Performance

On-site · Toronto

Develop high-performance software libraries and components for low-latency communication across CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs, and contribute to PennyLane’s simulator suite. Build benchmarking, profiling, and resource-tracking tools, while helping design software systems and uphold quality practices such as testing, code review, and continuous integration.

Quantum Software Developer - Performance

On-site · Toronto

Develop benchmarking, performance monitoring, and profiling tools for the PennyLane and Catalyst quantum software stack, and build high-performance software components such as the PennyLane-Lightning simulator suite. Translate quantum algorithms into efficient implementations, support new hardware platforms, and contribute to software design, quality assurance, documentation, and engineering best practices.

AI Developer - Agentic System

On-site · Toronto

Design, develop, and maintain an agentic AI research system, including automated pipelines for processing unstructured documents and carrying out complex research tasks at scale. Collaborate with researchers to build internal SDKs, APIs, and visualizations, and ensure production quality through testing, CI/CD, and code reviews.

Quantum Software Developer - FTQC Software (Intermediate to Senior)

On-site · Toronto

Design and optimize quantum compilation and quantum error correction software that scales to complex, fault-tolerant quantum workflows. Translate quantum circuits and research advances into production-grade software and hardware-facing representations, collaborating across software, hardware, architecture, and research teams.

Software Development Manager - Quantum Software

On-site · Toronto

Lead a team of 7–10 developers building and improving the PennyLane quantum software framework, while partnering with product managers to set the team’s direction and roadmap. Coordinate cross-functional delivery, improve development processes and product adoption, respond to bugs and open-source contributions, and oversee hiring, mentorship, career development, and performance management.

Senior Photonic Engineer – Experimentalist

On-site · Toronto

Design, build, and upgrade optical experiments to characterize photonic integrated chips and their high-speed electro-optic components, including measuring performance and troubleshooting optoelectronic systems. Implement and maintain phase-locking and calibration methods, collaborate across engineering teams on module integration, and produce technical specifications, test procedures, reports, and manuals.

Technical Project Manager

On-site · Toronto

The Technical Project Manager will lead complex engineering projects from planning through delivery by managing schedules, risks, and cross-functional dependencies. They will facilitate project communication, ensure alignment across R&D and engineering teams, and maintain accurate project documentation.

Payroll Administrator

On-site · Toronto

The Payroll Administrator is responsible for the accurate and timely processing of full-cycle payroll using ADP Workforce Now. This role also ensures compliance with federal and provincial legislation while managing employee data and benefit deductions.

Senior Photonics Design Engineer - Integrated Nonlinear Optics

On-site · Toronto

The candidate will develop passive and active components for fault-tolerant quantum architectures with a focus on nonlinear structures for squeezed light generation. They will also collaborate with fabrication partners and experimental teams to optimize designs using scalable simulation pipelines.

Xanadu Residency Program

On-site · Toronto

Residents will participate in a quantum computing bootcamp and work on technically challenging projects in research, education, or software. Key tasks include developing quantum algorithms, enhancing PennyLane software, and designing fault-tolerant quantum architectures.