Scientific Software Engineer - Compiler

Summary

QuEra Computing, Inc. seeks a creative and collaborative Scientific Software Engineer to help solve the unique software challenges of integrating high-level applications into state-of-the-art 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 direct integration with low-level hardware components. Using our open-source toolchain, Kirin, you will be building QuEra’s compiler pipeline together with experimental & computational physicists from low-level hardware instructions to high-level programming languages. This involves the development of new features and infrastructure for hardware execution. You will be co-designing compilers and hardware infrastructure for the next generation of quantum computing using cutting-edge neutral-atom and quantum error correction technologies. This emerging direction involves multiple new challenges in both engineering and science.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain domain-specific languages (DSLs) involved in the compilation pipeline

Support customers when usage questions and technical issues arise

Support integration of our compiler pipeline at our location in Japan together with other team members

Collaborate with scientists and our hardware control team to plan and develop hardware features required for executing QEC algorithms

Collaborate with other members of the scientific software team to deliver new language and hardware features including new gates, atom shuttling instructions, and low-level pulse control features

Qualifications

Masters in Computer Science with focus on quantum computation/architecture/programming language/compiler, or equivalent professional experience

Enthusiastic about building tools used by non-software developers

Fluent in Japanese and English for technical conversation between team and customers

Experience with Python semantics, Python type hints, and the CPython interpreter

Experience with modern C++ projects and tooling around those projects

Experience with Static Single Assignment intermediate representations-based compiler

Knowledge of the full lifecycle of software development, including version control, code review, testing, CI/CD, logging, profiling, debugging, and documentation

Preferred Qualifications

Ph.D. in Computer Science with focus on quantum computation/architecture/programming language/compiler, or equivalent professional experience

knowledge in quantum physics and AMO physics

Experience in programming language and compiler design

knowledge in quantum error correction

Contribution to existing open-source libraries