Job Specifications
Summary
QuEra Computing, Inc. seeks a creative and collaborative Scientific Software Engineer to help solve the unique software challenges of developing state-of-the-art simulation tools and compilers for QuEra’s neutral-atom quantum computers. You will have the opportunity to work with a vibrant scientific software team and a community of industry and academic collaborators and to help our growing team of diverse experts address fascinating challenges, ranging from classical compiler techniques to modern methods for quantum simulation. You will be building QuEra’s compiler pipeline together with experimental & computational physicists from low-level hardware instructions to high-level programming languages using our internal toolchain. This involves development of new compiler infrastructure and new programming language design and implementation. You will be co-designing compilers with cutting edge neutral-atom hardware and quantum error correction technology. This new direction involves multiple new challenges in both engineering and science.
Responsibilities
Development and maintain QuEra’s Static Single Assignment intermediate representations-based compiler infrastructure and compiler components at various abstractions used by our hardware engineers and scientists.
Design novel domain specific languages specific to our hardware as well as Bloqade SDK together with the team.
Integrate existing simulation tools with the compiler pipeline and cloud service.
Communicate and collaborate with QuEra scientists and external customers to meet their use case requirements.
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Computer Science with focus on quantum computation/architecture/programming language/compiler, or equivalent professional experience.
Enthusiastic in building software tools for scientists especially physicists.
Experience with Python semantics, Python type hints, CPython interpreter.
Experience with at least one of the compiled languages and experienced with their type system, e.g C++, Julia, Rust, Haskell, OCamel, etc.
Experience with Static Single Assignment intermediate representations-based compiler development.
Knowledge of the full lifecycle of software development, including version control, code review, testing, CI/CD, logging, profiling, debugging, and documentation.
Knowledge of quantum computing basics, e.g., common quantum algorithms, quantum information theory basics.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with using LLVM or MLIR for compiler development, or experience with an existing compiler development
Programming language design, especially programming language theory
Quantum program optimization, e.g quantum circuit simplification, scheduling, routing, etc.
Quantum error correction
Contribution to existing open-source libraries
Experience with existing circuit simulation tools, e.g, cirq, qiskit, CUDA Quantum, etc.
The approximate base salary range for this position is $102,400 - $166,400.
We consistently monitor external market data and update base salary ranges accordingly. We determine base compensation decisions on several factors, including as geographic placement, role-specific knowledge, skills, and/or experience. In addition to our base salary offerings, we also provide equity grants for all new hires.
QuEra is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About the Company
Located in Boston, QuEra Computing is a maker of advanced neutral-atoms based quantum computers, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the industry. Founded in 2018, the company is built on pioneering research recently conducted nearby at both Harvard University and MIT. QuEra is building the industry’s most scalable quantum computers to tackle useful but classically intractable problems for commercially relevant applications. Our signature 256-qubit machine, Aquila, the largest publicly-accessible machine in the wor...
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