Quantum Deployment & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Rigetti Computing, Inc.

Berkeley (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid parental leave

Medical insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Vacation policy

Job summary

Rigetti is seeking a Deployment Infrastructure Engineer to own the end‑to‑end deployment of quantum systems at customer locations and on cloud platforms. You will coordinate with Engineering Operations, Quantum Engineers, and partners to gather site requirements, validate deployments, and ensure smooth handoffs.

You will contribute to CI/CD, on‑prem servers, and AWS workflows while maintaining on‑call rotations for installation stability.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant industry experience related to DevOps, Cloud, Site‑Reliability Engineer, field or deployment engineering, or HPC / research computing operations.
Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and scaling tools (Karpenter, EKS, etc).
3-5 years experience with AWS (or similar Cloud providers).
3-5 years experience with Linux systems for server use.
1-2 years experience with Terraform (or similar Infrastructure as Code).
1-2 years experience with Observability tools (Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Sentry).
Significant experience in debugging production environments and providing support for resolution of incident.
On-call experience and support for production level applications, deployments, and/or devices.
Hands on deployment experience to production environments as well as modern deployment practices.
Deployment strategies, including deployments into physical customer, lab, or field environments.
Experience working directly with customers or external partners in a technical role.
Willingness to travel internationally for installations and onboarding, including extended site visits.

Responsibilities

Own the process for Deployment of Rigetti's quantum systems on both On-Premise and Cloud Platforms - including on-site installation and commissioning at customer and partner locations.
Develop, optimize and deploy Infrastructure required for Rigetti's quantum systems as well as provide support and validation of deployments.
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers during deployment: capture site requirements, surface hidden assumptions early, and drive issues to resolution across Rigetti teams.
Work closely with Quantum Engineers and Engineering operations to test, validate and measure the deployed quantum systems, including the control systems that run alongside each fridge.
Suggest and implement improvements to Cloud and on-prem infrastructure as well as the deployment process.
Lead retrospectives on completed deployments and fold the lessons into the standard process.
Provide Site-reliability support and lead root‑cause analysis for incidents both during and after the deployment process.
Partner with Engineering operations to create observability and reliability across Rigetti's systems.
Partner with Internal software engineering to develop, maintain and improve deployment testing practices.
Build and maintain test and staging environments that mirror customer deployments.
Document process for deployment, site-reliability, and testing for standard operation procedures to ensure clear workflow across the various teams.