Senior Software Engineer — Quantum Hardware Stack (Remote)

Alice & Bob; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

BSPCE plan

Remote work policy up to 40%

Parental plan

Urban Sports Club

Mental health support

25-day vacation + RTT

Transport cost support

Healthcare coverage

Meal vouchers

French language courses

Job summary

Alice & Bob is building the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer and a robust software stack to control its hardware. The Senior Software Engineer will lead design and development of low-level software, partnering with physicists and researchers to ensure reliable, high-performance operation close to the hardware.

You will mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and drive interfaces that decouple control electronics from experiment logic, enabling rapid iteration while

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.
• Hands-on experience writing drivers or low-level interfaces for hardware instruments (VISA/SCPI/PCIe/Ethernet-UDP).
• Strong DSP fundamentals: sampling, filtering, modulation/demodulation for waveform generation and acquisition.
• Ability to collaborate with physicists and deeply technical researchers.
• Strong technical leadership to influence direction and align teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layers for control electronics.
• Define clean hardware/software interfaces for fast hardware iteration without breaking software stack.
• Collaborate with physicists to reflect experimental needs in models and interfaces.
• Drive long-term architectural strategy and cross-organizational alignment.
• Mentor teams and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.

Skills

Python

Real-time constraints

DSP fundamentals

Leadership

Tools

VISA

SCPI

PCIe

Ethernet/UDP

FPGA-based instruments

Job description

Alice & Bob is building the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer and a robust software stack to control its hardware. The Senior Software Engineer will lead design and development of low-level software, partnering with physicists and researchers to ensure reliable, high-performance operation close to the hardware.

You will mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and drive interfaces that decouple control electronics from experiment logic, enabling rapid iteration while