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Funding and backers

Total raised
$15M
1 round on record
Latest round
$15M
Venture round · Feb 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
10
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Audacia, Quantonation
The money's age
Long since its last round
32 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
45/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 25 Expanded Diraq Opens U.S. Technology Hub in Santa Monica · archive.jsonline.com Feb 11, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $15M 2022 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Feb 2024 $15M — datacenterdynamics.com
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Registration Details Diraq Pty Ltd. its site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Diraq develops silicon quantum processors built on standard semiconductor manufacturing. Its spin qubit approach aims to scale using existing chip foundries. The company was spun out of a leading quantum research group.

News

Press release archive.jsonline.com 2 months ago
Diraq Opens U.S. Technology Hub in Santa Monica Read more
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News Nature 1 year ago
Industry-compatible silicon spin-qubit unit cells exceeding 99% fidelity
Among the many types of qubit presently being investigated for a future quantum computer, silicon spin qubits with millions of qubits on a single chip are uniquely positioned to enable quantum computing. However, it has not been clear whether the outstand
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News Nature 1 year ago
Bell inequality violation in gate-defined quantum dots
Quantum computers leverage entanglement to achieve superior computational power. However, verifying that the entangled state does not follow the principle of local causality has proven difficult for spin qubits in gate-defined quantum dots, as it requires
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News Nature 2 years ago
Entangling gates on degenerate spin qubits dressed by a global field
Semiconductor spin qubits represent a promising platform for future large-scale quantum computers owing to their excellent qubit performance, as well as the ability to leverage the mature semiconductor manufacturing industry for scaling up. Individual qub
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News Nature 2 years ago
Assessment of the errors of high-fidelity two-qubit gates in silicon quantum dots
Achieving high-fidelity entangling operations between qubits consistently is essential for the performance of multi-qubit systems. Solid-state platforms are particularly exposed to errors arising from materials-induced variability between qubits, which le
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Diraq over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
62/100
Languages
Python
MATLAB
Bash
PowerShell
Cloud & platforms
Azure
Linux
Windows
AWS
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Full Diraq tech stack 25 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$160k – $170k
Open positions
3
1 Jobs
Junior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $170k $170k
Highest paying role Systems and Network Engineer $170k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
10
4 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
7 days
faster than 78% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
31% ▼
Hardware
8% ▲
Security
8% ▼
Leadership
8% ▲
Networking
8% ▲
Support
8% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Chicago Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Sydney
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Sydney Australia
HQ
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware, HR, Legal
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Santa Monica United States
Regional office
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 50-200 est. staff $163k Avg Salary
hires for Leadership, Networking, Support
opened 2026 seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Chicago, United States 1 open roles · last posting Oct 2026

Jobs

$130k – $170k per year • Hybrid • 2+ years exp • Santa Monica
Python
PowerShell
Bash
VMWare
Azure
Windows Server
AWS
Proxmox VE
KVM
Hyper-V
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP
DNS
DHCP
VPN
VLAN
Cybersecurity
FortiGate
Management
Outlook
OneDrive
SharePoint
ITSM
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$130k – $160k per year • Hybrid • Santa Monica
Copilot
DevOps
Azure
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Entra ID
Management
Service Desk
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≈ $162k – $303k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Santa Monica
Least Privilege
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≈ $62k – $182k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Sydney
Python
MATLAB
Altium Designer
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Financials

Total raised
$15M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $15M Details