Quantum Compiler Engineer: SSA & Hardware Co-Design

IC Resources; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IC Resources is seeking a Compiler Engineer to join a quantum hardware company focused on neutral-atom quantum computers. You will build SSA-based compiler infrastructure and contribute to language design, collaborating with hardware and physics teams to co-design the compiler stack around real quantum systems.

You will work across IR design, lowering, optimisation, and code generation, developing domain-specific languages for quantum hardware and integrating simulation tooling into the compiler

Qualifications

• Strong foundations in compiler construction and programming languages.
• Experience building or extending SSA-based compiler infrastructure.
• Comfortably working across IR design, lowering, optimisation, and code generation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain SSA-based compiler infrastructure across multiple abstraction layers.
• Design and implement domain-specific languages tailored to quantum hardware.
• Build and evolve compiler pipelines from low-level hardware instructions to high-level programming interfaces.
• Integrate simulation tooling into the compiler and cloud stack.
• Contribute to optimisation, scheduling, and hardware-aware compilation strategies.

Skills

SSA-based compiler

Domain-specific languages

Compiler pipelines

C++

Rust

OCaml

Python

IR design

Code generation

Job description

IC Resources is seeking a Compiler Engineer to join a quantum hardware company focused on neutral-atom quantum computers. You will build SSA-based compiler infrastructure and contribute to language design, collaborating with hardware and physics teams to co-design the compiler stack around real quantum systems.

You will work across IR design, lowering, optimisation, and code generation, developing domain-specific languages for quantum hardware and integrating simulation tooling into the compiler