Quantum Systems Backend Engineer

Atom Computing, Inc.; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance (employee & depend)

Job summary

Atom Computing, Inc. in Boulder, CO, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the software platform that orchestrates our quantum computers. You will work on backend services in Python and Rust, with occasional TypeScript/React frontend work, operating close to hardware in a Linux environment.

This role focuses on orchestration, workload management, and data handling for our quantum systems, collaborating with hardware control teams and a tight-knit software/quantum engineering group.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the software stack that orchestrates quantum computing on our systems.
• Rewrite and productionize prototype code written by our Quantum Engineers.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure for automating system tuning and calibration.
• Develop and maintain software for scheduling the execution and analyzing the results of quantum algorithms.
• Work closely with our Quantum Engineers to write idiomatic, tested, and extensible code for executing experiments and algorithms on our quantum hardware.
• Make sound code-design decisions that keep our codebase clean, extensible, and easy for the team to build on.
• 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.

Skills

Python

Git

Testing

Software engineering

Quantum concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Git

SQL

Terraform

TypeScript

React

Job description

Atom Computing, Inc. in Boulder, CO, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the software platform that orchestrates our quantum computers. You will work on backend services in Python and Rust, with occasional TypeScript/React frontend work, operating close to hardware in a Linux environment.

This role focuses on orchestration, workload management, and data handling for our quantum systems, collaborating with hardware control teams and a tight-knit software/quantum engineering group.