Senior Embedded Software Engineer - High-Performance Computing Orchestration

Infleqtion; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

HSA

Unlimited PTO

401(k) matching

Life insurance

Maternity/paternity leave

Student loan repayment

Job summary

Infleqtion in Chicago seeks a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to design high-performance software that blends classical computing resources with next-generation quantum hardware. You will optimize latency and throughput across CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, accelerators, and interconnects in a distributed environment.

You will collaborate with engineers and scientists across software and hardware domains, develop maintainable code in C++, C, Rust, or Python, and work in Linux.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional embedded software development experience
• Strong programming experience in C++, C, Rust, or Python
• Experience in Linux environments
• Understanding of concurrency, memory, networking, data movement, latency, and throughput

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high-quality software for quantum-classical computing systems
• Coordinate computation across classical and quantum resources
• Meet latency, throughput, bandwidth, and reliability requirements
• Integrate software with CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, accelerators, and high-speed interconnects
• Analyze performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve scalability
• Develop tooling, benchmarks, and observability for complex systems
• Troubleshoot across applications, OS, drivers, runtimes, networking, firmware, and hardware
• Collaborate with engineers, scientists, and partners
• Contribute to reviews and technical docs
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers
• Prototype new technologies for evolving quantum HPC ecosystem

Skills

C++

C

Rust

Python

Linux

Concurrency

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Physics or related

Job description

Within Infleqtion's Quantum Computing Product Group, we are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to develop high-performance software systems that integrate classical computing resources with next-generation quantum hardware.
You will collaborate across quantum and classical domains to design, implement, and improve performance-critical software that orchestrates computation and data movement across CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, high-speed interconnects, and quantum systems. You will work closely with engineers and scientists across software and hardware boundaries to enable scalable quantum computing. Prior quantum-computing experience is valuable but not required; relevant backgrounds include high-performance computing, distributed systems, scientific, embedded, or other performance-critical computing applications.
Job Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining high-quality software for high-performance quantum-classical computing systems.
• Building software components and interfaces that coordinate computation across classical and quantum computing resources.
• Developing systems that operate under demanding latency, throughput, bandwidth, and reliability requirements.
• Integrating software with heterogeneous computing platforms including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, accelerators, and high-speed networking or interconnect technologies.
• Analyzing system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and improving scalability and reliability.
• Developing tools, benchmarks, test infrastructure, and observability capabilities for complex computing systems.
• Troubleshooting challenges spanning applications, operating systems, drivers, runtimes, networking, firmware, and hardware.
• Collaborating with software engineers, physicists, electrical engineers, systems engineers, external technology partners, and researchers to develop new computing capabilities.
• Writing maintainable, well-tested software and contributing to code reviews, design reviews, and technical documentation.
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.
• Rapidly evaluating and prototyping new technologies as the quantum and high-performance computing ecosystem evolves.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional embedded software development experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience developing complex technical systems.
• Strong programming experience in one or more systems or scientific-computing languages such as C++, C, Rust, or Python
• Experience developing software for performance-critical, distributed, embedded, scientific, or high-performance computing systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, version control, code review, and maintainable software design.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Ability to diagnose complex problems across multiple layers of a computing system.
• Strong understanding of computer systems fundamentals, such as concurrency, memory, networking, data movement, latency, and throughput.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
• You do not need previous quantum-computing experience to be successful in this role. We are looking for exceptional software and systems engineers who are excited to learn the quantum domain.

We Highly Value

• Ability to learn quickly, reason about complex computing systems and turn difficult requirements into reliable software
• High-performance computing (HPC) systems, supercomputing environments, or HPC job schedulers such as Slurm or PBS.
• GPU or accelerator programming, including CUDA or similar programming models.
• Distributed systems, high-performance networking, or low-latency communication.
• RoCE, RDMA, high-speed Ethernet, InfiniBand, or other high-bandwidth interconnect technologies.
• Heterogeneous computing involving CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, or other accelerators.
• Embedded Linux, firmware, device drivers, or hardware/software integration.
• Performance profiling, benchmarking, modeling, and optimization.
• Scientific computing, numerical computing, or research software.
• Real-time or latency-sensitive systems.
• FPGA-accelerated computing.
• Quantum computing, quantum control, quantum error correction, or quantum software frameworks such as CUDA-Q.
• Developing software in R&D or rapid-prototyping environments.
• Collaborating with external scientific, academic, government, or technology partners.
• Open-source software development

Benefits

• 100% company paid Employee coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, and Short/Long Term Disability insurance programs
• Employer funded Health Savings Account
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Matching Programs
• Company paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Healthcare Savings Account
• Paid FMLA Leave
• Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employer Assistance Program
• Student Loan Repayment

Equal Opportunity

Here you have freedom to embrace your whole self: who you love, your gender identity and expression, skin color, age, appearance, disability, neurodiversity, DNA, military/veteran status, citizenship, and other factors that make up who you are. Your uniqueness is valued, welcomed, and appreciated here. We are dedicated to providing a positive workplace and base all employment decisions on your qualifications, performance, merits, as well as business needs. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Additional Information

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export-control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Any offer of employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled software or technology without sponsorship for an export license.

Travel of up to 10% may be required.