Software Tech Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; Town Of Cambridge; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus plan

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Contributory pension scheme

Equity

28 days annual leave

Job summary

the company is seeking a Technical Lead for its DF-AMO product in Cambridge to drive the technical roadmap and production readiness. You will collaborate with engineering, research, product and customer teams to shape the product direction and ensure scalable delivery.

You will mentor a growing team of engineers, work across quantum architectures, and balance latency, throughput and maintainability in a cutting-edge software stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading small to medium technical teams.
• Excellent software skills, particularly in C++, with Python experience beneficial.
• Comfortable learning quantum error correction fundamentals to enable collaboration with QEC research teams.
• Experience delivering complex software products from concept through deployment and customer adoption.
• Experience line managing engineers and guiding teams to success.
• Strong ability to collaborate and communicate with a diverse team.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical development of the new product DF-AMO and drive its roadmap.
• Turn decoding technology into a scalable, production-ready system and align with stakeholders.
• Evaluate trade-offs to optimize performance, maintainability and scalability.
• Mentor and develop a growing team of 5+ engineers and foster a delivery-focused culture.

Skills

C++

Python

Leadership

Collaboration

QEC basics

Job description

Cambridge, UK | Full-time or Part-time | Permanent (or Temporary) | Hybrid

Salary: £90,000 to £115,000 DOE

*The salary range for this role is broad, as we are able to consider varying levels of experience.Any offer made will carefully take into account level of experience (including relevant industry experience), transferable relevant skills and previous relevant achievements.***

About us

the company’smission is to master quantum error correction (QEC) and unlock a new age of human progress. From advances in material and climate science, to complex chemistry simulation for new drug design, quantum computers will help humanity solve some of its most important challenges. But without QEC, the industry’s defining technical challenge, such breakthroughs can never be achieved.the company is the world leader in QEC technology. QEC is a complex problem that requires a range of skills,talentand passion.

Having raised more than $125M in funding to date to accelerate ourcutting-edgeR&D in quantum error correction (QEC), the company partners with many of the world’s leading quantum hardware providers and government agencies to make fault-tolerant quantum computing a reality.We’remaking remarkable progress and growing fast.

About the role:

the company’soverarching mission is making quantum computing useful sooner.Differentquantumarchitectures requiredifferent solutionsto quantum error correction.Weare seeking a technical leader for our new software-based quantum error correction stack, DF-AMO. DF-AMO targets scalability whilst preserving the flexibility required to support Atomic Molecular Optical (AMO) systems (Ion Traps, Cold Atoms). It is designed to be driven byDeltakit, our software SDK, and complementDeltaflow, our solid-state systems solution.

What you will do:

As Technical Lead for DF-AMO, you will own the technicaldevelopmentofthis newproduct, working closely with engineering, research, product, and customer teams.You will turn our industry-leading decoding technology into a scalable, production-ready system, helping shape both the technical roadmap and future product direction.You will evaluate technical trade-offs to manage system performance,maintainabilityand scalability, in a domainwhere latency and throughput are key requirements. You will mentor and develop a growing team of5+engineers, fostering aculture of collaboration anddelivery.

What we need:

• Proven experience in leading small to medium technical efforts (5+ people)

• Excellentsoftware skills, particularly inC++, with Python experience also being beneficial

• Comfortable learning quantum error correction fundamentalstoenable close collaborationwith our QEC research teams

• Experience delivering complex software products from concept through to deployment and customer adoption

• Experience line managing other engineers

• Strongability to collaborate and communicate with a diverse team

• Expert-level understanding in at least one of the following areas:

• Performant multi-process software

• Modern compiler infrastructures

• GPU-accelerated computing

What can you expect from us

• A comprehensive benefits package that includesan annual bonus plan,private medical insurance, life insurance, and acontributory pension scheme

• Equity, so that our team can share in the long-term success of the company

• 28 days annual leave,plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave

• A diverse work environment that brings together experts in many fields (including software and hardware development, quantum information theory,physicsand maths) and over 20 different nationalities

• A learning environment that encourages individual, team and company growth anddevelopment, including a regular programme of learning events and training and conference budgets

If you have any queries, please contactcom.

*Everyone is welcome at the company. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from eligible and suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity/paternity.*

*Women and other underrepresented groups may be less likely to apply for a role unless they meet all ornearly allof the requirements.If this applies to you, we still encourage you to apply - you may be a great fit, even if youdon’tmeet every single qualification.We’dlove to hear from you.*

*If you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process so you can do your best, please let us know. We will be happy to help.*

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