Raphael Lescanne from Alice & Bob announced a plan to hire 100 new employees by mid‑2026, following a $100 million Series B round and the opening of a $50 million quantum laboratory in Paris that houses a nanofabrication cleanroom for prototyping advanced quantum processing units. The company, which currently employs about 150 people—one third of whom hold a PhD or higher—aims to double its workforce to accelerate the development of its cat‑qubit architecture, which has been shown to reduce the hardware requirements for a useful large‑scale quantum computer by up to 200 times compared with competing approaches. The hiring drive will focus on 90 technical roles, including scientists, engineers and technicians in physics, quantum error correction, firmware, software development, machine learning and quantum hardware infrastructure, while the remaining 10 positions target business and management talent to support the commercial arm. With this expansion, Alice & Bob intends to deliver the first utility‑scale quantum computer for industrial applications by 2030, positioning itself at the forefront of fault‑tolerant quantum computing.
Alice and Bob Announces 100 New Hires to Accelerate Quantum Computing Roadmap
Alice & Bob announced on 16 September 2025 that it will recruit 100 new employees by mid‑2026, effectively doubling its workforce from roughly 150 staff to 250. The hiring plan, funded by a $117 million Series B round secured in September 2025, targets 90 technical posts—covering physics, quantum error correction, firmware, software, machine learning and quantum‑hardware infrastructure—and 10 business‑development roles. The expansion will span the company’s Paris and Boston campuses, broadening the talent pool to specialists from over twenty countries and fostering cross‑disciplinary collaboration essential for iterating the cat‑qubit architecture that underpins the 2030 roadmap to deliver the first utility‑scale fault‑tolerant quantum computer. The $50 million quantum laboratory in Paris, inaugurated in September 2025, houses a nanofabrication cleanroom and a large‑scale test area for prototyping and validating qubits. Valentine Zatti, Vice‑President of People and Culture, described the initiative as creating a new labour market with unprecedented roles and team scopes, a source of pride for the French workforce. One‑third of the existing staff hold doctoral degrees, and the new hires will help meet ambitious milestones that rely on the company’s 2030 roadmap.
Cat‑Qubit Technology Reduces Hardware Requirements by 200 Times
Conceived by co‑founders Raphael Lescanne (CTO) and Thau Peronnin (CEO) and later adopted by Amazon, the cat‑qubit architecture exploits super‑coherent states to encode each logical qubit in a single physical device that is intrinsically resistant to common error channels. This compactness cuts the number of physical components required for a scalable quantum processor by a factor of 200 relative to conventional approaches, dramatically shrinking the hardware footprint needed to achieve fault‑tolerant quantum computing and accelerating the path to commercial deployment. The 200‑fold hardware savings reinforce Alice & Bob’s claim to leadership in fault‑tolerant quantum computing, giving it a competitive edge over Google and IBM.
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