Full-Time
Senior IT Operations Specialist
OTI Lumionics
51-200 employees
Develops OLED materials for mass production
Compensation Overview
CA$75k - CA$110k/yr
Mississauga, ON, Canada
In Person
On-site role in Mississauga; no remote work option stated.
Bachelor's
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- 5–8+ years’ experience in IT infrastructure, systems administration, or operations
- Strong background in managing enterprise environments (on‑prem and cloud/hybrid)
- Proven experience leading IT projects, upgrades, and infrastructure improvements
- Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices
- Experience with vendor management and supporting distributed teams
- Post-secondary education in IT or equivalent experience; relevant certifications an asset
- Experience with Windows Server, Linux, Ubuntu, AWS, Azure, Office 365, HPC, MySQL, GSuite, Active Directory, Veeam software and Microsoft Intune
- Knowledge of network tools and standard methodologies (VPNs (Virtual Private Network), Switching, Load Balancing, Remote Management)
- Proficiency and strong knowledge base in computer and server hardware, networking infrastructure, server software
- Experience with production Clusters and their problems
- Experience with managing network device portals
- Experience with Virtual infrastructure (servers, VDIs, switches, VMs)
- Flair with manipulating and presenting data in Google Docs, Excel or otherwise
- Knowledge of network hardware, software, and peripherals equipment
- Knowledge of network security systems, procedures, techniques, and applications
- Industry certifications and memberships (CCNA/CCNP) will be considered an asset
- Attention to details
- Strong organizational skills
- Extended hours and shift work may be required from time to time
- Ability to work under little or no supervision
- Lead the selection, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise hardware and software solutions aligned to business strategy
- Provide advanced technical support and direction to internal teams, including remote and traveling employees, ensuring high service availability and user satisfaction
- Own the monitoring, performance optimization, and scalability of IT infrastructure to support business growth and evolving operational demands
- Design and implement preventative maintenance frameworks and system health strategies to minimize downtime and risk
- Develop, standardize, and govern IT policies, procedures, and documentation, ensuring consistency and audit readiness
- Define and enforce cybersecurity best practices, including employee awareness programs and continuous improvement of security posture
- Design, execute, and evaluate security awareness initiatives, including phishing simulations and training programs
- Oversee installation, configuration, and maintenance of production networks, servers, and cloud/hybrid environments, including remote datacenters
- Evaluate emerging technologies, vendors, and solutions to enhance performance, security, and cost-efficiency of infrastructure
- Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and service delivery to ensure quality, accountability, and value optimization
- Lead system upgrades, migrations, and transformation initiatives across physical and virtual infrastructure with minimal business disruption
- Establish and maintain IT asset management practices, including inventory control, lifecycle tracking, and license compliance
- Oversee procurement, configuration, and deployment of end-user devices, ensuring standardization and security compliance
- Direct onboarding and offboarding processes, including identity/access management, asset allocation, and security protocols
- Drive continuous improvement in IT service delivery processes
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal, and organizational standards, including data protection and privacy requirements
- Lead risk assessments, business continuity, and disaster recovery planning and testing
- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership on technology risks, opportunities, and innovation
- Ensure compliance with environmental policies, procedures, and objectives, and actively participate in the identification and reduction of environmental impacts related to the role
- Adhere to health and safety protocols, report hazards, and contribute to maintaining a safe and healthy work environment for all employees
- Other ad hoc duties as assigned
OTI Lumionics develops high-performance OLED materials for electronics and automotive uses. It designs and tests materials through a platform that combines quantum simulations, machine learning, HPC, and real-world pilot production to enable rapid scale-up for mass production. The company offers end-to-end services—from computational design and synthesis to pilot testing and prototyping—working with Tier 1 partners to ensure scalable manufacturing. Its goal is to deliver materials that meet exacting performance and production requirements for large-volume consumer electronics and automotive applications.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$59.2M
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
2011
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- March 2026 Blackwell results cut catalyst simulation from days to about one hour.
- OTI’s Nord Quantique partnership expands discovery into electronic structure and AIMD workflows.
- 2025 ISO certifications and mass-production qualification strengthen buyer trust for 2026 ramps.
What critics are saying
- OTI depends on Apple, Samsung, and display OEM adoption of under-screen sensors.
- A $55 million Series B rarely funds prolonged scaling, qualification, and customer concentration.
- If under-display Face ID slips past 2026, OTI’s core thesis loses urgency.
What makes OTI Lumionics unique
- OTI’s CPM platform designs OLED materials without changing manufacturers’ production lines.
- March 2026 Blackwell benchmarks prove OTI’s chemistry stack beats slower CPU workflows.
- OTI combines materials synthesis, pilot testing, and application engineering in one shop.
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Flexible Work Hours
Extended Hours may be required
Remote Work Options
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Paid Holidays
Paid Sick Leave
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Wellness Program
Mental Health Support
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↓ -1%OTI Lumionics establishes Iterative Qubit Coupled Cluster benchmark on NVIDIA Blackwell gpus. OTI Lumionics developed a parallel, GPU-accelerated implementation of the Iterative Qubit Coupled Cluster (iQCC) algorithm, migrating computational chemistry workloads from CPU-intensive environments to the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform. The architecture utilizes bit-wise partitioning to distribute Hamiltonian terms across compute nodes and offloads Pauli contractions to the GPU to manage the exponential growth of transformed Hamiltonians. This hardware-specific optimization resulted in a 90x performance increase, reducing ground-state energy calculation steps for complex catalysts from several days to approximately one hour on a single processing unit. The implementation achieved the simulation of electronic-structure Hamiltonians for ruthenium catalysts in the 100-124 qubit regime, outperforming the accuracy metrics of Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) benchmarks. In a specific validation involving a greenhouse gas capturing catalyst requiring 112 qubits, the iQCC algorithm completed a variational ground-state energy calculation in 65 minutes. This processing duration is significantly lower than the 28 to 200 hours estimated for a theoretical quantum computer to execute an equivalent task, establishing a new high-precision standard for classical emulation of quantum chemistry circuits. The iQCC algorithm restricts variational evolution to a classically simulable operator subspace by selecting entanglers exclusively from the Direct Interaction Space, ensuring non-vanishing energy gradients during every iteration. This algorithmic constraint prevents the barren-plateau phenomenon, maintaining the trainability of complex circuits as the system size increases toward industrially relevant scales. The successful execution of these simulations suggests that the threshold for quantum advantage in molecular structure determination has moved beyond the 200-qubit scale, requiring higher-capacity quantum hardware to compete with current accelerated classical simulations. For full technical details on the iQCC implementation and the Ruthenium catalyst benchmarks, consult the official OTI Lumionics announcement here and the arXiv paper here. March 17, 2026
OTI Lumionics, an Canadian advanced materials innovation company, finds itself deep in the race to develop next-generation display technologies, where one of the biggest challenges is creating and validating new materials that can meet increasingly demanding specifications.
Instead of rushing out the feature, the company is reportedly partnering with materials innovators like OTI Lumionics, who are developing advanced cathode patterning and transparent OLED layers to ensure Face ID works reliably even when hidden behind the screen.
by Max MaxfieldWe are surrounded by a multiplicity of materials, from metals and alloys to crystals, glasses, and ceramics; from polymers and plastics to organic and living-derived substances; and let’s not forget natural materials like stone and exotic materials like aerogel.The amazing thing to me is that all these materials are formed from different combinations of the same small group of elements. For example, while living organisms and other objects can contain traces of many elements, a core group does the heavy lifting; only six elements—carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and sulfur (S)—make up over 95% of the mass of most living things.Similarly, only eight elements—oxygen (O), silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), iron (Fe), calcium (Ca), Sodium (Na), potassium (K), and magnesium (Mg)—make up more than 98% of the Earth’s crust.As an aside, there are currently 118 confirmed chemical elements in the periodic table. These range from hydrogen (element 1) to oganesson (element 118). The reason I say “currently” is that there are ongoing attempts to synthesize additional elements, but we can worry about that later.Although there may appear to be a vast number of materials available to us, the ones we see that are naturally occurring, coupled with the ones we’ve created in our laboratories, represent only a tiny fraction of the possible combinations and permutations of atoms. And even this is only the tip of the iceberg, as it were. For example……I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, one of the books at the very top of my “must-read” recommendations is The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Keen
The partnership will focus on electronic structure calculations, vibronic spectra, and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) using quantum simulations.