Start your career at 1QBit

Start an exciting career at 1QBit

Join us on our journey to solving the world’s most intractable challenges, and become part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful impact on the world

What’s It like to Grow Your Career at 1QBit?

1QBit is committed to fostering an environment where employees can grow their careers. How do we do this? We provide many opportunities for growth, advancement, and learning through the following

Meaningful Work

We strive to create new opportunities for you to pioneer scientific breakthroughs and earn yourself and the team a spot in the history books

Our Culture

Working at 1QBit means having the opportunity to work on industry-leading projects, experiment with new ideas, and be a part of a culture of innovation

Career Advancement

We work with you to understand your career goals and develop a plan to help you achieve those goals, whether it be through mentorship, courses, or on-the-job training

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A Word from Our CEO

Building something truly new is always an exciting process, and when your creation will have a transformative impact on the world, that excitement becomes fuel for the journey. 1QBit’s work building the software and tools for quantum processors and other exotic computing devices isn’t the end goal, it’s a means to change what’s possible for humanity. From radical new materials, better drugs, more intelligent machine learning and a deeper understanding of our universe, computation is the key to unlocking what’s next. At 1QBit, we’ve assembled a diverse team of experts passionately building the future of computing; if you share our excitement for this work, reach out and join us on our shared journey.
—Andrew Fursman

Benefits and Perks

At 1QBit, we believe people do their best work when they are well taken care of and provided with the right resources to balance their career with their personal life. Take a look at some of the competitive benefits and perks we offer to our full-time employees:

  • Three weeks’ paid vacation, plus 10 extra company-designated holidays so you can enjoy extra-long weekends
  • Stock option plan
  • Annual bonus program
  • A distributed workforce, with the option to work in any one of our beautiful offices in Vancouver, Waterloo, or Sherbrooke
  • Extended health and dental benefits plan
  • Discounted immigration legal services through Ernst & Young
  • Employee and family assistance program

Our Disciplines

Software Development

Includes testing, automation, requirements analysis, architecture, and Dev Ops

Data and Applied Sciences

Includes machine learning, artificial intelligence, operations research, statistics, and signal analysis

Research

Researchers and scientists in chemistry, physics, mathematics, AI, optimization, algorithms design, and specific industry domains

Hardware Development

Includes hardware development designers, specialists, and engineers

Research

Researchers and scientists in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, AI, optimization, algorithms design, and specific industry domains.

Hardware Development

Includes hardware development designers, specialists and engineers

Data and Applied Sciences

Includes Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Statistics. Signal Analysis.

Software Development

Includes Testing, Automation, Requirements Analysis, Architecture and Dev Ops.

Our Disciplines

Software Development

Includes testing, automation, requirements analysis, architecture, and Dev Ops

Research

Researchers and scientists in chemistry, physics, mathematics, AI, optimization, algorithms design, and specific industry domains

Hardware Development

Includes hardware development designers, specialists, and engineers

Data and Applied Sciences

Includes machine learning, artificial intelligence, operations research, statistics, and signal analysis

Our Teams

Machine Learning & Quantum-Inspired Optimization

Providing world-class solutions by harnessing the power of machine learning, operations research, quantum computing, and software development.

Hardware Innovation Lab

Developing tools and expertise to support our partners’ targets, and to harness and improve their quantum and other specialized hardware.

Quantum Simulation

Pushing the limits of quantum chemistry by developing problem-decomposition techniques, and cloud-based and quantum computing solutions.

Specialized Expertise

Our R&D teams are backed by a solid group of professionals with
expertise in human resources, finance, IT, business development, and administration.

Teams across Canada

We have a distributed workforce across Canada, our teammates have the option of working in any one of our beautiful offices in Waterloo, Vancouver, or Sherbrooke

Waterloo, ON

Vancouver, BC

Sherbrooke, QC