Intern – Summer 2026

We are building quantum computers on silicon chips.

Our secret sauce: We use machine learning to help us characterize and operate quantum chips 1000x faster than current methods.

We are working on the frontier of semiconductor transistor technology and are on a journey that will fundamentally change computing forever.

This will not be your average internship.

The Opportunity

• Ship machine learning software that controls and counts individual qubits and electrons (or holes) as they quantum tunnel through the most advanced semiconductors made by humans to date.
• Leverage your intelligence by building agents that allow you to explore solutions to problems more efficiently and accelerate workflows.
• Program bespoke quantum chip control electronics: radio frequency system on a chip, field programmable gate arrays, and arbitrary waveform generators.
• Travel to world-leading labs, challenge experts in the field, document your work, and produce content to communicate what you have engineered and experienced with the rest of the world.
• Learn how to do exceptional work, grind in an early-stage deep tech start-up, and build a company.
• Access to the founders, the Y Combinator community, and the best quantum engineers in the game.
• Earn equity if you join full-time after the internship.

What We Are Looking For

• High integrity, high intensity, high intelligence.
• People who can’t stop thinking about the problems they are solving.
• People who are long-term thinkers and would be open to joining full-time after the internship.
• People who believe in the power of software and want to be part of its journey devouring the world.
• People who take everything seriously, whether flipping burgers at McDonald’s or building a quantum computer – they apply the best of their abilities to a task and treat it with utmost valor and respect.

What We Aren’t Looking For

• People who want a separation between work and life.

Necessary Skills

• Hunger.

Skills That Can Help

• Personal project building and can show us the deployed app/tool.
• Python, PyTorch, machine learning, computer vision, agent building.
• Cryogenics and operating dilution refrigerators.
• Full-stack quantum engineering and/or quantum simulation.
• Soldering electronics, printed circuit board design.
• Experience programming digital-to-analog converters, radio frequency system on a chip, field programmable gate arrays, and arbitrary waveform generators.

To give you an idea of what you will be building for, here is a photo taken through a microscope lens of a quantum chip wire-bonded to a printed circuit board. Here’s to building the future.

!Image of quantum chip

1. 15-minute call.
2. 1-hour interview.
3. One-day trial.
4. Offer.