Solutions Architect
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Job overview
Classiq is seeking a Quantum Solutions Architect to lead the technical track of sales cycles across the Americas. The role helps government, enterprise, and academic customers evaluate and adopt its quantum software platform through technical discovery, engagement planning, and customized demos. The architect partners with go-to-market teams, advises customers, identifies opportunities, shares field feedback with product teams, and maintains reusable implementation assets.
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Full job description
At Classiq Technologies, we’re shaping the future of quantum computing. Our mission is to make quantum computing practical and impactful by bridging the gap between hardware and real-world applications. Our platform enables developers and enterprises to design, optimize, and deploy quantum algorithms at scale, automating complex processes and supporting teams from beginners to experts across diverse architectures. Clasiq is trusted by Fortune 500 leaders and global governments. We accelerate the quantum era with a platform that transforms bold quantum ideas into working applications. As a Quantum Solutions Architect, you'll lead the technical track of the sales cycle in the Americas (government, enterprise, academy), helping customers with varying capabilities in the quantum software domain to evaluate, adopt, and engage with Classiq's quantum software platform. You’ll partner with all the GTM teams and serve as the trusted advisor for customers and team members, finding solutions to the most complex challenges, guiding technical discovery, and delivering customized demos that fulfill the customers’ expectations.
What you'll do
- Partner with Sales and other teams to qualify, scope, and shape opportunities, and then, with the customers, define technical engagement plans and strategy
- Lead technical discovery processes to understand customer challenges across a variety of domains (such as Finance, Pharma, Automotive, Healthcare, logistics, and many more) using quantum information and quantum algorithm development expertise.
- Build trust and lead customers to educated decisions through clear, compelling demos
- Articulate complex quantum computing concepts to a range of technical audiences, one-to-one and one-to-many
- Proactively identify new technical opportunities within customer conversations
- Influence product direction by relaying field feedback from prospects
- Maintain a library of reusable implementation assets and POC templates
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Solutions Engineer, Presale Engineer, or deep DevOps roles that were customer-facing), or in a strategic technical position with strong cross-functional engagement (e.g., Product Manager, System Architect)
- A degree with Computer Science and compelling experience in deep tech, or a degree in quantum information or quantum computing - preferred. A Ph.D. is preferred in a relevant field.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical topics clearly
- Experience with quantum information, quantum software engineering, or quantum algorithms
- Located in the US and a native English speaker.
- Ability to work independently and remotely
- Bonus: Industry experience in Machine Learning and AI
Why Join Us
- Advance national security innovation through quantum computing.
- Work with world-class researchers and engineers.
- Competitive compensation: base, commission, equity.
- Flexible, remote-friendly environment.
- Shape quantum adoption in the US Federal landscape.
How this job compares
Set against the 8,559 open Solutions Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$141–231K/yr273 salary ranges
- US median$45–90/hr122 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 303 open Solutions Architect jobs in Illinois and 8,559 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Solutions Architect postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 7,580 postings).
- Education
- 3,147 of the 8,559 open Solutions Architect jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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