Full-Time

Optomechanical Engineer

Logiqal

Logiqal

11-50 employees

Modular quantum computers built on neutral atoms

Compensation Overview

$125k - $200k/yr

+ Equity

Princeton, NJ, USA

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Category
Mechanical Engineering (1)
Required Skills
CAD

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Requirements
  • Familiarity with computer-aided design (CAD), finite element analysis (FEA), two-dimensional mechanical drawings and tolerancing, and design for manufacturing (DFM).
  • Basic familiarity with optics.
  • Experience with hands-on construction and optical alignment.
Responsibilities
  • Design and prototype custom precision optomechanics, modular optical breadboards, and large-scale mechanical infrastructure that integrates every component of the processor.
  • Work with quantum computing researchers and optical engineers to identify components, design criteria, and timelines.
  • Complete the design, prototyping, construction, and validation of processor hardware.

Logiqal is building a modular quantum computer based on neutral-atom qubits. Getting past laboratory scale means coordinating millions of qubits, control signals, optical components, and error-correction cycles reliably, so the company designs the system as manufacturable sub-modules built around CMOS optoelectronics rather than one hand-assembled instrument. Its engineers work across optical systems and optomechanics, FPGA and software control, processor subsystems, and error correction, while its scientists run performance experiments and the analysis pipelines behind them. Unlike architectures that must be rebuilt to grow, a modular design is meant to scale by replication toward the millions of qubits the company says it is targeting. Its goal is to reach that scale by making quantum hardware something a factory can produce.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Princeton, New Jersey

Founded

2024

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Logiqal raised $24 million from DCVC, Inspired Capital, Auxin Capital, and Lachy Groom.
  • Inspired Capital publicized Logiqal repeatedly in September 2025, signaling continued investor conviction.
  • Jeff Thompson presented modular neutral-atom fault tolerance at Duke in February 2026.

What critics are saying

  • QuEra, Atom Computing, and Pasqal already ship larger neutral-atom systems in 2026.
  • Logiqal has no public hardware milestone beyond 2025 papers and talks.
  • If 2026 fabrication slips, the million-qubit thesis loses credibility fast.

What makes Logiqal unique

  • Jeff Thompson co-founded Logiqal in 2024 with Princeton neutral-atom expertise.
  • Logiqal pursues modular ytterbium qubits and erasure conversion, a distinct fault-tolerance path.
  • Its founding team spans Princeton, Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Google Quantum.

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