Frontend Design Engineer for Quantum SDKs & UI

SQC Silicon Quatum Computing; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SQC Silicon Quantum Computing is hiring a Design Engineer for Integration & Access at our Sydney facility. You will own the user experience across the developer-facing surface—UI, SDKs, documentation and notebooks—balancing external and internal needs with depth in design and code.

You will collaborate with API/SDK engineers and researchers to create a clear interface atop a novel quantum system, and to ship production-grade frontends with accessible, scalable design.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing and building web interfaces with depth in both design and code.
• Strong frontend engineering: TypeScript, a modern framework such as React, Vue or Svelte, CSS, and the browser platform.
• A portfolio of interfaces built for technical or specialist users.
• Interaction and interface design skills, including information architecture, prototyping and design systems.
• Data visualization in the browser, with D3, SVG, Canvas or WebGL.
• User research practice: choosing the right method, running it, and implementing the outcomes.
• Accessibility as a working habit, and awareness of the standards and legislation behind it.
• Comfort reading and writing Python well enough to work in notebooks and follow SDK code.
• Version control, testing and code review as part of your normal workflow.
• The ability to make a clear interface atop complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the user experience across the developer-facing surface: the Quantum Circuit UI, the SDKs, the documentation and the exploration notebooks.
• Design and build the web frontends, taking the work from research and wireframes through to production code.
• Design the visual language for quantum concepts that need it: circuits, device topology and qubit layouts, job state and queueing, calibration and qubit health, and the quantum results.
• Work with the engineers who own the API and SDK components to design a UI that is compelling and simple to use.
• Design the onboarding path that takes a developer from first contact to a running program, including the worked examples and execution documentation.
• Build and maintain a component library and design system so all interfaces stay consistent as the stack grows.
• Make the interfaces accessible and usable, including keyboard paths, contrast and screen reader support.
• Handle the visualisation and performance problems that come with large circuits, long job histories and dense result sets.
• Document design decisions and the reasoning behind them for team consistency and product quality.

Skills

Frontend design

TypeScript

React/Vue/Svelte

Web accessibility

Python

Version control

Data visualization

Tools

D3.js

SVG

Canvas

WebGL

Job description

SQC Silicon Quantum Computing is hiring a Design Engineer for Integration & Access at our Sydney facility. You will own the user experience across the developer-facing surface—UI, SDKs, documentation and notebooks—balancing external and internal needs with depth in design and code.

You will collaborate with API/SDK engineers and researchers to create a clear interface atop a novel quantum system, and to ship production-grade frontends with accessible, scalable design.