Team building
Building a quantum team
We help organizations plan a quantum team and recruit it in the right order, from the leader to engineers and graduates. We take on team builds for organizations that are starting a program, spinning a group out of a lab, or growing after a funding round.
When organizations need a whole team
An enterprise starts a quantum program
A bank, a telecommunications operator, or a manufacturer appoints a head of quantum. The new head then needs architects, engineers, and analysts. Some enterprises start with post-quantum cryptography migration, others with quantum computing applications.
A startup grows after a funding round
After a seed or Series A round, a startup needs its first senior engineers and a head of hardware or software. It also needs the people who will build its product.
A research group becomes a company
Founders from a university lab often need a chief executive or a chief operating officer. They also need their first hires from outside the lab.
A lab or agency opens a new program
A national lab or a government agency starting a quantum program needs a program director first, then technical staff.
How we run a team build
- Plan the team. We agree with you which roles you need, the order to hire them in, and which to recruit, train, or contract.
- Hire the leader first. Once you have hired the leader, we involve them in the later searches.
- Run the senior searches. We run each senior search with our full executive search process.
- Recruit the wider team. We find engineers, scientists, and graduates through direct outreach, university and lab networks, and the job board.
- Report as one program. You have one engagement, one lead consultant, and one weekly report for the whole team.
Early-career hiring
As part of a team build, we recruit graduates, doctoral candidates finishing their degrees, and postdoctoral researchers. We don’t run high-volume hiring campaigns.
Early-career candidates go through the same structured interviews as senior ones. We assess their fundamentals, their research or project work, and how they approach a problem they haven’t seen before.
You can find internships and graduate roles from across the field on the board, under entry-level and graduate roles and internships.
Training the people you already have
Sometimes you can train someone you already employ for a new role. Quantum Academy offers structured training and certification in quantum technologies, including post-quantum cryptography.