Remote Senior Low-Level Quantum Software Engineer

Alice & Bob; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BSPCE plan

Remote policy up to 40%

Parental plan

Urban Sports Club

Moka.care mental health

25 days vacation + RTT

Transport allowance

Health coverage with Alan

Meal vouchers Swile

French language courses

Job summary

Alice & Bob is developing the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer and is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the low-level software stack close to hardware. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure reliable, high-performance interfaces for control electronics.

You will collaborate with physicists to reflect experimental needs, define hardware/software interfaces, and steer long-term architecture and roadmap across the

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience designing low level software stack, close to the hardware.
• Superior engineering proficiency in Python.
• Ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for hardware/software interaction loops — including real-time constraints, timing accuracy, and low-latency communication with control hardware.
• Hands-on experience writing drivers or low-level interfaces for hardware instruments (e.g. via VISA, SCPI, PCIe, Ethernet/UDP, or custom protocols).
• Solid understanding of Digital Signal Processing fundamentals — sampling, filtering, modulation/demodulation, and their application to waveform generation and acquisition.
• Ability to collaborate and challenge ideas with physicists, academic-level experts, and deeply technical researchers.
• Strong technical leadership: able to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain low-level drivers and hardware interfaces for control electronics.
• Define clean hardware/software interfaces that decouple control electronics from higher-level experiment logic, enabling fast hardware iteration without breaking the software stack.
• Collaborate closely with physicists and researchers to ensure models and interfaces reflect real experimental needs and enable fast iteration.
• Drive long-term architectural strategy, technical roadmap, and cross-organizational alignment.
• Mentor teams, challenge assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.

Skills

Python

Low-level stack

Real-time control

Hardware interfaces

DSP fundamentals

Leadership

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Tools

VISA

SCPI

PCIe

Ethernet

UDP

Job description

Alice & Bob is developing the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer and is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the low-level software stack close to hardware. You will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure reliable, high-performance interfaces for control electronics.

You will collaborate with physicists to reflect experimental needs, define hardware/software interfaces, and steer long-term architecture and roadmap across the