Principal Software Engineer - Quantum Platform Lead (Equity)

Atom Computing; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

401K matching

Disability insurance

Dependent care

Life insurance

Team lunches

Job summary

Atom Computing is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the software platform that orchestrates our quantum computers. You will shape workload coordination, hardware interface, and experimental data management while guiding architecture for next-generation systems.

This role is based in Boulder, CO or Austin, TX with backend emphasis in Python/Rust and occasional TypeScript/React frontend work, operating near hardware in a Linux environment.

Qualifications

• A passion for writing software and a proven track record of designing and implementing architecture-level features in complex systems
• Proficiency with Python and SQL
• Experience developing and operating software in Linux environments
• Familiarity with Git, automated testing, and modern software development practices
• Willingness to learn the atomic, optical, laser physics, and quantum mechanics concepts needed to put your work in context

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a core area of our software platform, guiding the design and execution of its projects and setting the technical direction that aligns your area with the broader team roadmap
• Drive architectural decisions across the software stack that orchestrates quantum computing on our systems, interfacing with (but not controlling) the hardware control and calibration systems owned by our partner team, and managing the experimental data our systems produce
• Invent novel technologies and solutions that advance our technology roadmap, contributing to inventions and patents where appropriate
• Rewrite and productionize prototype code written by our Quantum Engineers, turning research code into reliable, well-tested, maintainable services, and establishing the patterns the team builds on
• Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar on code quality, design, documentation, and engineering practice
• Deploy, monitor, and support our production platform, sharing in a team on-call rotation to keep our quantum computers reliably available to customers
• Partner with our infrastructure team to strengthen our CI/CD pipelines, contributing improvements that speed up and stabilize how we ship
• Represent Atom Computing's engineering work externally where relevant, in customer and partner engagements and in the broader technical community

Skills

Python

SQL

Linux

Git workflows

Testing practices

Quantum concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

10+ years of software engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

Git

Job description

Atom Computing is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the software platform that orchestrates our quantum computers. You will shape workload coordination, hardware interface, and experimental data management while guiding architecture for next-generation systems.

This role is based in Boulder, CO or Austin, TX with backend emphasis in Python/Rust and occasional TypeScript/React frontend work, operating near hardware in a Linux environment.