Remote Quantum Design Software Engineer

Alice & Bob; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BSPCE plan

Direct IP Compensation bonuses

Flexible remote policy

Parental plan with crèche support /.aw

Urban Sports Club

Mental health support moka.care

25-day vacation policy + RTT

Transportation cost coverage

Health coverage with Alan

Meal vouchers Swile

French language courses

Job summary

Alice & Bob, a quantum computing startup in France, seeks a Scientific Software Engineer to own and evolve the internal framework that turns quantum circuits into layouts and sends them to simulators. You’ll grow its component library, improve robustness, and enable large-scale chip design automation.

Join a diverse team building the first universal quantum computer. Strong Python skills and collaboration with hardware engineers are essential, with a flexible remote policy and competitive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Python development with strong software engineering fundamentals (testing, packaging, versioning, CI/CD, code review).
• Experience building and maintaining a library or framework used by other engineers and well-documented APIs.
• Comfort with computational geometry or CAD/layout data, or eagerness to learn quickly.
• Ability to work closely with hardware engineers and translate their needs into software.
• Fluent English and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the internal design backend API and qubit design framework: code quality, testing, CI, releases, documentation.
• Develop new parametric components and layout primitives with the chip designers who use them.
• Extend and harden the export pipeline to electromagnetic and circuit simulation tools.
• Build the automation layer for large-scale, hierarchical chip layouts in close partnership with our physical-design and scale-up engineers.
• Support internal users: onboarding, debugging, API design, and turning recurring pain points into features.

Skills

Python development

Software engineering fundamentals

APIs / CI/CD

Computational geometry

Hardware collaboration

Fluent English

Tools

gdstk

gdsfactory

KLayout

HFSS/AEDT or Palace

Job description

Alice & Bob, a quantum computing startup in France, seeks a Scientific Software Engineer to own and evolve the internal framework that turns quantum circuits into layouts and sends them to simulators. You’ll grow its component library, improve robustness, and enable large-scale chip design automation.

Join a diverse team building the first universal quantum computer. Strong Python skills and collaboration with hardware engineers are essential, with a flexible remote policy and competitive