The UK arm of Quantum Brilliance, an Australian company making small room-temperature quantum computers from synthetic diamond.
Quantum Brilliance develops small quantum computers built on synthetic diamonds. Most quantum computers need very low temperatures, vacuum chambers or large arrangements of lasers. The company's approach does not need those, which means its machines can use much less power and be placed where they are needed, for example in data centres, on vehicles or spacecraft, or in mobile devices. Its long-term goal is to shrink the technology to the size of a semiconductor chip. It describes itself as 'the leading developer of miniaturised, room-temperature quantum computing products'.
The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Australia. It also has operations in Germany, Singapore and the Americas, and since late 2023 in the UK. It is backed by venture investors and says it wants to make practical quantum computing widely accessible by running it on any device where ordinary computers are found. The founders were not named in the pages we read, so we have not listed them here.
In November 2023 the company named Andrew Dunn as its UK country manager, to set up and lead a new UK office. He had spent nearly seven years as a strategic business development director at Arm in Cambridge and eight years as an equity research analyst at the Royal Bank of Canada in London. He holds a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Nottingham and was a Marie Curie research fellow at Delft University of Technology. His job was to shape UK strategy and build relationships with corporate and public-sector clients. The announcement did not say which city the office is in, and we found no UK headcount.
The company's chief revenue officer, Dr Mark Mattingley-Scott, said in the announcement that it aims to 'recruit, develop and support top-tier talent'. That is the only culture statement we found. The company says it has partnerships with governments, supercomputing centres, research organisations and industry in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Roles in a company like this span quantum physicists and diamond materials scientists, hardware and electronics engineers, software developers who connect the machines to ordinary computers, and business development, partnerships and operations staff, which is the kind of job that the UK country manager does. Physics, engineering, computing and business degrees can all lead in. Check the company's website for what exists in the UK now.
Website: quantumbrilliance.com
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