Lead, Scientific Software & Compiler Infrastructure

Digitailor; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Job summary

QuEra Computing in Boston seeks a Scientific Software Lead to manage the Infrastructure team and drive the development of shared language, compiler, and runtime foundations for our scientific software stack.

You will blend people leadership with hands-on technical direction, mentoring engineers, shaping design reviews, and ensuring stable interfaces across researchers and engineering leads; quantum computing experience is a plus but not required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a technically strong software team with mentoring & delivery.
• Deep expertise in compiler engineering and programming language design (IRs, analyses, transformations).
• Strong grounding in program semantics, type systems or related theory.

Responsibilities

• Manage and build the Infrastructure team: hire and mentor engineers; set priorities balancing foundational work with partner needs.
• Direct the team’s technical direction in collaboration with Scientific Software leadership; focus on language abstractions and shared execution infrastructure.
• Guide design through semantics, correctness, and practical implementation; participate in design/code reviews and critical engineering work.
• Partner with researchers and engineers to translate requirements into reusable infrastructure; ensure stable interfaces and migration planning.

Skills

Team leadership

Compiler engineering

Programming language design

Semantics & type systems

Software architecture

Tools

LLVM/MLIR

Clang

GCC

Rust

CPython

Job description

QuEra Computing in Boston seeks a Scientific Software Lead to manage the Infrastructure team and drive the development of shared language, compiler, and runtime foundations for our scientific software stack.

You will blend people leadership with hands-on technical direction, mentoring engineers, shaping design reviews, and ensuring stable interfaces across researchers and engineering leads; quantum computing experience is a plus but not required.